Brien Cron, president and founder of Chicago Tiny House, a nonprofit organization, said such homes exist in every state near Chicago. Listing agencies report a few available as short-term rentals in Illinois, mostly in locales distant from Chicago. But within the city and the suburbs? Cron and others involved in this issue said they know of none.
It’s a source of frustration for Cron, considering he’s been working on the problem for about seven years as he also strives to get immediate help to the homeless, especially in Uptown. He said he thought he made headway with staffers for former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who invited proposals for tiny homes in 2018. "It was bogus," Cron said. "Emanuel was against the entire project from the get-go.
Now, under Mayor Lori Lightfoot, something new is afoot. In the documents for her 2023 budget, Lightfoot mentioned setting aside $3 million for a pilot project in tiny homes. Eugenia Orr, spokesperson for the city’s Housing Department, didn’t have much detail last week, but she said the cost would be drawn from federal funds allocated to Chicago for recovery from the pandemic.
Cron said that whatever the city does, he hopes it will give fair weight to proposals from nonprofits with a social mission and not simply favor developers. Working with the Chicago architecture firm Manske Dieckmann Thompson, Cron said he has been aiming for designs that can be built for about $25,000.
As for those who close their minds to the concept, Cron said, "It’s just ignorance. They don’t know what these homes are and how they can help people."
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