Small Housing providers are the backbone of Chicago’s neighborhoods, but they are struggling. We all know how hard housing providers work, and how much they care about their residents. We all have countless stories about…
Michael Zink, a housing attorney who is active in the small landlord association Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance, said the Lightfoot administration’s effort fails to address what he sees as one of the most pressing issues…
On Sunday January 2, 2022, the Chicago Tribune ran this great story on the front page of its Real Estate section. The article showed the challenges facing neighborhood housing providers by telling the story of…
REJournals posted this year-in-review story about the local multi-family scene, and it featured NBOA members and our NBOA State Rental Housing Survey. The pandemic created a big opportunity for private equity, but squeezed independent Chicago…
On Monday, November 1, the Chicago Sun-Times printed this important letter from the NBOA highlighting the accomplishments of Chicago housing providers during the pandemic. Please read this important letter.
In the RPBG Fall 2020 Newsletter, we reported encouraging progress in the efforts of RPBG Director Ibrahim Shihadeh to build a new, seven-story apartment building with garage parking on the 1200-block of West Pratt Avenue. A…
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About the Survey The Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance (NBOA), in cooperation with its affiliate members, and Kiser Group conducted an online survey of more than 150 Chicago housing providers to determine the effect of the…
Update: The Illinois Supreme Court has issued an order which appears ban the filing of evictions, until September 1, against persons who submit a signed Declaration that they were impacted by Covid. We recommend that…
The Governor has issued a new Executive Order related to evictions. Read it here. Basically, it means the following: Eviction orders issued prior to COVID may now be executed (meaning that the Sheriff is now…