#infill-development

#infill-development

Chicago city planners are trying to solve a national problem that officials in many cities talk about but rarely tackle at scale turning idle public land into missing middle housing in neighborhoods that have seen decades of disinvestment. For a third round, planners and city officials have initiative selling tracts of surplus property for small-scale residential infill, rather than marketing these parcels for parking, speculation or short-term budget plug-ins.