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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

City Council committee OKs loan fund to preserve single-room-occupancy buildings

In 2014, Chicago was home to 81 single-room-occupancy buildings. Now, there are only 40 SROs that, as one official put it, “are helping folks get off the street.” 

On Wednesday, the City Council’s Committee on Housing and Real Estate took a small but important step in an attempt to stop the bleeding.

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