Chicago And The Disappearing Two-Flat
Converted to single-family homes in high-income areas, vacant and demolished in low-income ones. No one's building new ones. How does Chicago hold on to an indispensable piece of affordable housing?
A block of two-flat buildings in Chicago. Source: architecture.org
(Note: New content has been hard to come by this week. New stuff will arrive very soon. Until then please take in this piece from January 2020. It’s from the very end of the Before Times but still very relevant today. -Pete)
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