Events / Webinars

In her tenure serving as President of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD, Kari Steele has proven to be an able administrator, serving with honor and distinction, overseeing a billion-dollar budget.

Ms. Steele is now running for Cook County Assessor. How would she plan on operating the Assessor’s office differently than the incumbent? What kind of systematic changes to the assessment system would she envision? How would assessments for neighborhood housing be impacted if she were to prevail?

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This year, many Cook County housing providers and property managers are facing significant challenges when attempting to enforce their leases.

Eviction cases – Housing providers and managers are facing lengthy return dates when cases are filed and confusion and challenges in moving cases forward.
Court Based Emergency Rental Assistance - The only current source of rental assistance for housing providers and tenants is Court-Based Rental Assistance, available only when evictions are filed. What are the best practices for accessing these funds?
Mandatory Mediation - A Circuit Court initiative launched last year known as the Early Resolution Program (ERP) requires that tenants be given significant time to consult with legal aid attorneys and court administrators about their options before their cases proceed to a trial judge. How does this new program work?

On Tuesday, May 17, we heard hear from two key people knowledgeable about these issues.

Bob Glaves, Executive Director of The Chicago Bar Foundation - Bob was instrumental in creating the ERP program and helping engineer some of the Cook County Court reforms designed to improve the flow of cases and, when possible, provide rental assistance to housing providers and tenants.

Dan Cassell, ERAP Program Director, CIty of Chicago Department of Housing - Dan will talk about the Court-Based Rental Assistance program. How long will these funds likely remain available, and how can parties access these funds in the most expeditious manner?

Representatives from the offices of the Circuit Court of Cook County and the Cook County Sheriff were also available to answer questions pertaining to their roles in the eviction process.

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We've experienced this story many times. Misguided and ill-conceived housing legislation is adopted in our nation's coastal cities and eventually makes its way to Chicago.

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Oakland, Calilfornia, have given birth to much of this legislation, but none of these cities holds a candle to New York City--the birthplace of rent control and home to some of the most oppressive housing regulations in the nation.

Meet Jay Martin, the Executive Director of NBOA's counterpart in New York City, the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP).

CHIP is a trade association for owners of over 400,000 rent-stabilized rental properties across New York City’s five boroughs. Founded in 1966, CHIP is a leader on a range of housing issues, including rent regulations, lead paint, property taxes, and water rates. CHIP advocates for the rights of property owners, empowering them to make major investments in their properties and achieve financial sustainability while maintaining affordable properties.

We will lead off our discussion with a focus on New York City's rent stabilization programs (the "rent control" policies that New York adopted in the 1940s, which allowed for no rent increases whatsoever, have largely been replaced by rent stabilization policies, which allow rent increases by a small, set percentage each year).

We will learn about the enormous challenges New York housing providers face with rent stabilization and how government-appointed rent stabilization boards set rent increases each year, and the arduous process housing providers must undertake to receive permission to increase rents above the cap. With rent stabilization in place, do apartments ever actually change hands? What market distortions does rent stabilization create?

We will also cover other issues facing New York City housing providers, including an effort in the state legislature to enact a law that provides tenants with a permanent entitlement to their apartment. New York's “Good Cause Eviction" proposal is very similar to the "Just Cause Eviction" ordinance introduced last year in Chicago's City Council.

Also, what issues do New York housing providers face with property tax assessments? How long does it take in New York to receive an order of eviction?

It’s important to learn about the challenges faced by our New York City colleagues so we can prepare for the fights ahead in the Chicago City Council, the Cook County Board and the Illinois General Assembly.

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The Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance (NBOA) is the voice of neighborhood housing in Chicago. For 18 years, the NBOA has been representing Chicago’s small and mid-sized housing providers, most of whom live, hire and buy supplies in the communities they serve. The work we do and effect we have is overwhelming accomplished by the vast time our volunteers provide. But our results are also accomplished with the assistances of our paid professionals. The support from our members is important to our continued success.

In this webinar, you will hear from an original founder about how we got started to the tremendous adjustments NBOA made once COVID hit and our important mission moving forward.

You can support us by going to our website:
nboachicago.salsalabs.org/NBOADonationForm/index.html

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State's Attorney Kim Foxx joins the NBOA in a discussion of consequential issues impacting the future of Chicago
Public safety is on everyone's mind, including those of us who own and manage neighborhood multifamily buildings.

Currently in her second term, State's Attorney Kim Foxx
approaches her job differently than her predecessors.

We will learn about her approach to prosecuting crime in Cook County and how it has evolved during her six years of service as State's Attorney. We will also discuss specific public safety issues that impact those of us who invest in neighborhood multifamily housing.

Several NBOA housing providers will be on hand to discuss how public safety issues impact us, and to present important questions.

On Tuesday, March 29, State's Attorney Kim Foxx joined the NBOA in a discussion of consequential issues impacting the future of Chicago.

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Assessor Fritz Kaegi is no stranger to NBOA. He and his staff have attended several NBOA Zoom calls in the past few years. We look forward to meeting with him again at our Tuesday, March 22, Noon Zoom call.

First, Assessor Kaegi will discuss the Cook County Affordable Housing Special Assessment Program. Learn about this new program, which is similar to the old Class 9 Program. If you make certain improvements to your property and maintain a certain percentage of your units as affordable, you can receive reductions in your assessment ranging from 25 to 35%.

After we learn about the Special Assessment Program, we will switch to an interview format with the Assessor in which we will cover a range of important and, in many ways, urgent issues affecting the assessments of neighborhood multifamily buildings.

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Emergency Rental Assistance update at both the City and State levels.

We are pleased to have the following esteemed panelists join us in a discussion on the current status of emergency rental assistance:

· Rodrigo Carillo, Director, Strategic Initiatives and Planning, Illinois
Housing Development Authority
· Daniel Hertz, Director Of Policy, City of Chicago Department of Housing
· Donna Clarke, Chief Operating Officer, Neighborhood Housing Services

Here are a few of the questions that we ask our panelists:

What is the current status of ERA programs in the State of Illinois and City of Chicago?

How much money remains available for rental assistance?

Will the State and City be able to honor all applications for assistance?

Are the number of claims for rental assistance increasing, decreasing or staying the same?

Are tenants who previously received assistance eligible for assistance again?

Do the same income requirements exist as last year?

Regarding current applications, are both housing providers and tenants required to complete the paperwork?

What is the current processing time for State and City applications?

What are court-based rental assistance programs and how do they differ from the State and City programs?

How quickly will a housing provider and tenant learn if the State or City rejects an application?

How long will Emergency Rental Assistance last?

Is federal rental assistance here to stay or does a plan exist for winding down the program?

Looking ahead, what will happen when tenants fall behind on rent and rental assistance is no longer available?

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We have an exceptional super insightful speaker our first open NBOA meeting of the year (2022) TODAY at noon. It promises to be a highly informative meeting sure to challenge or confirm your presumptions about the multifamily industry.

Hear Neal speak on a range of topics: his fascinating outlook on the retail sector, particularly shopping malls, why he believes that cap rates will continue to compress, and the drastic effect that a new phenomena, tokenization may have on the multifamily industry.

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By ending the eviction moratorium on Sunday, October 3rd, Governor Pritzker has given us plenty to discuss. Roman Viere, NBOA Board member and President of the Greater Austin Developers Association will moderate a discussion with several respected local experts on landlord tenant law.

We first hear from from the Cook County Sheriff's Office with information on Sheriff policies and best practices we and our lawyers must consider moving forward.

We will then receive an update from Preservation Compact regarding emergency rental assistance - the status of remaining funds from applications we filed this past summer, and the availability of new rounds of assistance from County, City and State. (There is more new money out there!)

We cover issues including:

• Will there be "a tsunami" of eviction filings that overload the system?
• How is the eviction process now different?
• Cook County Circuit Court's ERP mandatory mediation program
• Chicago’s 7 day “cooling off and negotiate” period lasting 60 days from
now.
• How will additional rental assistance impact eviction filings?
• What kind of systematic long term changes to the eviction process are
we likely to see?

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