Nonprofit envisions new affordable housing for families at vacant Lower West Side lot

Guacolda Reyes is the Resurrection Project’s chief real estate development officer. Rents at the Ashland Avenue project would be affordable to those earning 60% of the Chicago-area median, or $62,520 for a family of four. (Provided)

The Resurrection Project has proposed affordable housing for a vacant parcel on the Lower West Side, seeking zoning approval for a project that needs to line up financing and subsidies before construction can start

The nonprofit group wants to build on former industrial land it owns at 2134 S. Ashland Ave. It submitted a zoning application to the City Council last week calling for a building with 100 units, but Guacolda Reyes, the group’s chief real estate development officer, said that after a design tweak, the building is due for 98 units.