Chicago will build its first tiny homes on city property to eliminate land acquisition costs and put four to eight units on each lot and “communal space” to support “creation of a community,” a top mayoral aide said Friday.
Testifying at City Council budget hearings, Housing Commissioner Marisa Novara put some meat on the bone of the long-awaited, $3 million program bankrolled by existing federal housing money and teased in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 2023 budget address.
