From the top of Logan Square’s newest seven-story apartment building at 2602 North Emmett Street, just steps from the train stop bearing the neighborhood’s name, the view is incredible. I can see the green grass of the Logan Square Monument, the neighborhood’s heart, and the silver and black roofs of the neighborhood’s historic buildings. In the distance, I see the Sears Tower, the John Hancock Center, and all the best of Chicago’s skyline.

In Chicago’s most rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, this is usually the kind of coveted view and central location only the wealthy can enjoy. But they won’t be able to buy all this building has to offer. Instead, all of the building’s hundred apartments are publicly funded and reserved for poor and working-class people.

Good morning from the seventh story roof of #LoganSquare's first equitable transit-oriented development.

Millionaires and billionaires won't be able to buy this view – all of the 100 units will be for our community's poor and working class families. pic.twitter.com/Naq5xxIqv1

 — Carlos Ramirez-Rosa 🇵🇸 (@CDRosa) April 10, 2021