• $180,000Active Strategy

  2013 (Duration 2 years)

  Housing

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Metropolitan Planning Council tackles regional planning challenges through policy research and community-based projects. Affordable rental housing comprises a small share of suburban Cook County's housing stock, but the need is growing as businesses relocate to the suburbs, and the recent recession and foreclosure crisis have increased demand. Several suburban municipalities are re-thinking their housing policies, shifting from a focus on single-family homeowners to providing a broader mix of housing options, including affordable rental housing. The Council will use this grant to better align the municipal leadership, housing needs, and public and private resources to preserve the County's suburban affordable rental housing.

• $100,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 1 year)

  Community & Economic Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Metropolitan Planning Council is a regional planning organization that serves the greater Chicago metropolitan area. The Calumet region, a 45-square mile area of land and waterways that is metropolitan Chicago's largest industrial area and one of the most bio-diverse regions of the Midwest, is the subject of significant redevelopment attention. The Council will use this grant to complete an inventory of organizations, projects underway, and the tools and public powers (such as eminent domain and land banking) available to promote Calumet's redevelopment that will inform efforts to align and accelerate such redevelopment efforts.

• $360,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Housing

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To participate in The Preservation Compact (over three years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Metropolitan Planning Council $640,000 between 2010 and 2013.