Housing development by Bloomingdale Trail aims to counter rising costs in Logan Square

Renderings of the two affordable housing developments going up at the Cortland Street and Ridgeway Avenue intersection in Logan Square. The Northwest Side area has seen some of the greatest losses in affordable housing. (Courtesy of Canopy)

As the cost of housing rises faster in Logan Square than much of Chicago, construction has begun on a new affordable housing development aimed at keeping longtime residents in place.

The development, Encuentro Square, will bring 89 affordable units split between two buildings at the corner of Cortland Street and Ridgeway Avenue, at the western end of the Bloomingdale Trail.