Woodlawn residents, housing advocates protest hotel development under consideration

South Side Neighbors Want Housing Protections Passed Before City OKs ‘Luxury’ Hotel Near Obama Center – Block Club Chicago

The hotel should be considered a “pipe dream” until housing costs in the community are “easily accessible to the Black and Brown people who have been living here for ages,” South Shore renter Courtney Chism said.

South Side Neighbors Want Housing Protections Before City OKs 'Luxury' Hotel Near Obama Center

WOODLAWN — With a 26-story hotel planned blocks from the Obama Presidential Center site, housing activists are calling on city leaders to prioritize a long-delayed slate of housing protections for residents near the center before advancing any hotel plans.More than 50 members of the Obama CBA Coalition rallied Tuesday on the vacant lot at 6402-6420 S. Stony Island Ave. in Woodlawn, where developer Aquinnah Investment Trust is looking to build a …

Woodlawn residents, housing advocates protest hotel development under consideration

The Obama Center towers over some nearby housing, and some in the neighborhood hope their housing needs will be considered, as a new hotel development is being considered by the city.

South Shore, Woodlawn residents protest 26-story hotel proposal near Obama Presidential Center

Philon Green was forced to move out of Woodlawn because of skyrocketing rent prices. He wanted to stay at Jackson Park Terrace — down the street from the under-construction Obama Presidential Center — but his landlord raised the rent from about $800 to $1,300.Green said the property wasn't in the best condition, but he enjoyed the area.Being priced out of the neighborhood was a concern shared at a protest Tuesday morning by other Woodlawn and So…

Organizers, CBA Coalition pushback on proposed luxury hotel near Obama Presidential Center – The Windy City Word

Outside of a vacant lot blocks away from the upcoming Obama Presidential Center, Chicago organizers met in opposition to a luxury hotel that has been proposed for 6402-20 S.Stony Island Ave. near the site.  “We cannot have a hotel until we have the protections for everyone who lives in this neighborhood, all the Black people who live in this neighborhood. We will not be pushed out,” said Dixon Romeo, executive director of housing advocacy group …