City Housing Commissioner Marisa Novara leaving Mayor Johnson’s administration
Department of Housing Commissioner Marisa Novara speaks following Mayor Lori Lightfoot's announcement of an emergency rental assistance program at a news conference at the Resurrection Project in Chicago on May 24, 2021.
Novara announced her resignation Tuesday after leading the department for four years and through a time when the city saw mounting concerns over gentrification and homelessness as well as a pandemic. She was appointed in 2019 by then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot after serving as vice president of the Metropolitan Planning Council.Novara told the Tribune said she appreciates Johnson’s commitment to affordable housing but it’s time for her to “pass the baton” to another commissioner.
One of the biggest pieces of legislation Novara championed was an overhaul of the city’s Affordable Requirements Ordinance that vastly raised the bar for affordable unit requirements for developers in the city. That came after a previous version of the ordinanceby lackluster progress.
The deal struck between the city and the Obama Community Benefits Agreement Coalition capped off a long, contentious debate in which
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