Housing collaboratives meet, exchange ideas in December

In December, the Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) and Metropolitan Mayors Caucus (MMC) partnered with conveners of the Regional Home Ownership Preservation Initiative (the Chicago Community Trust, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago) to host a meeting with financial institutions located in communities participating in the South Suburban Housing Collaborative and West Cook County Housing Collaborative (read more about these collaboratives in Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning's November 12, 2009 newsletter). The gathering was intended to brief the institutions on the community stabilization efforts underway in those municipalities, and to begin identifying opportunities for partnership and support. 
 
Over 50 individuals attended, representing a number of banks, communities, and organizations.  The financial institutions expressed a great deal of support for the notion of communities working together on housing, and discussed a number of ways that they could partner with the collaboratives. 
 
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