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Alliances
Elevated Chicago
City
Chicago
Year Founded
2017
Steering Committee consists of 17 non-profit, government and business member organizations and dozens of national, regional, and community partners. Their members include local government departments, a council of senior leaders from across the city and region, transit system leaders, universities, public health agencies, community-based foundations, community centers, housing associations, arts and culture programs, researchers, consultants, interns a. The City of Chicago’s Neighborhood Opportunity Fund will leverage investment in the downtown area to support redevelopment in underserved neighborhoods. b. The new Chicago Community Catalyst Fund will invest $100 million over three years to finance real estate and business ventures in disinvested neighborhoods. c. Healthy Chicago 2.0 was developed and guided by the Health in All Policies approach. d. The city’s Health in All Policies resolution calls on city departments, including the Department of Planning and Development, to consider health impacts in all policy areas and collaborate to mitigate root causes of health inequities. e. The Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) partnered with the Urban Institute to release a groundbreaking report, The Cost of Segregation, on the economic impact of segregation and what it costs the region’s economy and potential. f. Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (eTOD) and neighborhood resiliency against climate change are regional and national priorities of the Center for Neighborhood Technology. g. The Chicago Community Trust, the region’s community foundation, is deeply committed to promoting equity for all residents. h. Retail Thrive Zones aims to strengthen the economic vitality of eight neighborhood commercial corridors. Each of the Retail Thrive Zone corridors, located on the Chicago’s South, Southwest, and West Sides, have economic challenges, but they also have strong potential for growth. Within those corridors, the city will offer an evolving package of financial assistance to entrepreneurs and business. i. Enterprise Community Partners has made equity in transit-oriented development and access to healthy housing priorities for Chicago and the Midwest” Areas surrounding seven identified transit stations including Logan Square, Kedzie, Kedzie- Homan, California, Cottage Grove & 63rd, 51st & Garfield Implementing Community Tables and three Working Groups including: a. Systems Change: Focused on policy and other interventions in decision-making processes b. Capital and Programs: Focused on helping fund and build capacity or programs and capital projects across eHubs c. Knowledge Sharing: Focused on developing tools to collect and disseminate data and narratives. Community Tables and Working Groups working with the shared commitment to the following: a. Building upon existing plans , instead of undertaking new planning and visioning processes b. Focus on implementation through identifying existing priorities and aligning resources c. Realism in not overpromising, but grounding efforts in available tools and achieving goals to earn and maintain community trust d. Building on existing partnerships. Working toward visionary change across three interrelated Work Plan Themes: a. People: 1. Build Capacity, 2. Promote Local Ownership, 3. Amplify Power & Narratives b. Place: 1. Invest in Health & Climate Resilience, 2. Support Transit-Oriented Community Spaces, 3. Create & Preserve Healthy, Green, Affordable Housing c. Process: 1. Promote Meaningful Community Engagement, 2. Adopt a Common Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) Framework, 3. Elevate eTOD & Resident & Business Retention in Policy Agendas, 4. Increase Community Access to Adequate, Responsive Capital Sources eTOD: racial equity, health, climate change and environmental issues, arts and culture
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