(Paper 1)

Housing Stats

Housing turnover by income

Household Income, Child Living Arrangement

1990 2000

% population above 50K 17 35

% population above 100K 1.0 5.7

% Children in two-parent household 79 69

Housing turnover by race

Racial Demographics 1970 1980 2000

% of Hispanic persons in total population

3.3 68.1

% of white persons in total population

94.1 29.4

% of African-Americans in total population

0.1 1.0

Reason for demographic shift

Gentrification?Smith says NO; Need the following

qualifications:• No housing deterioration• No rent gap• No Suburbanites or “outsiders”• Eastside has low land values

(Paper 2)The Housing Bust and Assessment of Alternative

East Side Single Family Housing Sales/Transactions

Year # Foreclosures

Total # Transactions Percentage of foreclosures

2001 17 395 4%

2005 17 534 3%

2006 9 464 2%

2007 22 344 13%

2008 31 243 13%

2009 39 231 17%

2010 44 202 22%

2011 22 141 15.6%

Alternatives to Save Eastside

Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA)

↓City of Chicago

↓Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago (NHS)

↓2 Eastside Stakeholders

(Paper 3)

Components of New UrbanismIn Lake Calumet and Eastside

Specified Components for the “Greening” of Eastside

• Walkability-Most things within a 10-minute walk of home and work-Pedestrian friendly street design (buildings close to street; porches, windows & doors; tree-lined streets; on street parking; hidden parking lots; garages in rear lane; narrow, slow speed streets) -Pedestrian streets free of cars in special cases

• Access to Nature-Eastside is “land-locked”; must drive to access water and natural habitat

• Connectivity-Would need to raze housing-Add “rails-to trails” and pedways

Stakeholders: Southeast Environmental Taskforce

• Openlands Project • Sierra Club- Illinois Chapter • Bird Conservation Network • Historic Pullman Foundation • Vet's Park Improvement Assn. • Lake Michigan Federation • Friends of the Parks • Pullman Civic Organization • Peace Pipe Prairie Project • Calumet Ecological Park Assn.

Lake Calumet Vision DocumentProposals

• North turning basin: open water used fornon-motorized recreational watercraft.

• Western peninsula: proposed public recreationalarea with picnicking and fishing lagoon.

• Southwestern shore: restored wildlife habitat. • Northern slip: proposed wooded camping area. • Floating bicycle bridge: to connect western

Calumet with eastern Calumet and protect watercraft in north basin (4)