Housing

White House Award for Safer Foundation: Mike Tomas, Sep 1, 2011; Diane Williams, CEO of East Garfield Park's Safer Foundation, was awarded a Champion of Change recipient for the organization's innovative and proven programs supporting formerly incarcerated…
Neighborhood Stabilization: 1 Year Later A Year in the Life of a Foreclosure Rehab: Ash-har Quraishi, WTTW/ Chicago Tonight, Aug 17, 2011; Over the past year and a half, Melvin Bailey, head of the Community Male Empowerment Project, has been working as a developer under the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, a federal program to rehab…
Residents, city officials give problem liquor store the boot, encourage healthy foods in East Garfield Park: Mike Tomas, Mar 29, 2011; Local residents take a stand to oust troubled liquor store.
New houses, local jobs make for better neighborhoods: Bill Healy, Mar 7, 2011; Developer Melvin Bailey is putting local people to work, renovating foreclosed East Garfield Park homes through the Neighborhood Stabilization Program.
On West Walnut Street the scenery looks a little brighter: Bill Healy, Feb 17, 2011; The transformation of empty, foreclosed East Garfield Park houses into affordable, for-sale homes is the latest positive trend in the West Side neighborhood.