By Dimitrios Kalantzis, Contributing Editor, Lake Effect News Last month the Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University released a study, which found a significant increase in Chicago rental vacancies, from 5 to 5.7 percent in the last year. Such findings seem intuitive. As the Chicago region’s unemployment rate rose to double digits throughout the recession, most recently... »
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DePaul Professor: Second Wave of Foreclosures Coming, Need for Affordable Housing Grows
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Tags: Affordable housing, Chicago, DePaul University, Housing and Urban Development, HUD, Institute for Housing Studies, James Shilling, Lake Effect News, mortgage, recession, rental, renters, subprime mortgages, Unemployment, Uptown
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