Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning NSP and Foreclosure Initiatives (CMAP)
Housing is the cornerstone of healthy communities. Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning's initiatives seek to integrate housing into our long range comprehensive planning processes as well as to be responsive to current housing market conditions. The CMAP Board's Strategic Report on Visioning, Governance, and Funding calls for the agency to address housing issues as part of the overall comprehensive plan, particularly addressing housing conditions, type, affordability, and location. To meet regional priorities, the location, availability, and affordability of housing needs to balance with that of jobs, access to transportation, and protection of open space and natural resources. The escalating costs of housing force some families to move farther from employment centers to seek out reasonably priced housing options , even though such savings may be partially or even completely offset by the increased transportation expenses of longer commutes. CMAP seeks to explore sound policy decisions that assure residents of northeastern Illinois safe, decent and affordable places to live. Here is CMAP's Housing Fact Sheet which includes a set of housing principles.
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