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An attractive blue and gray apartment building with views of the Space Needle saved taxpayers $4 million in one year – simply by giving hardcore homeless alcoholics a place to live.

A mixed media tour of Mosaica, an affordable housing mixed use complex at 601 Alabama St. that spans two city blocks.

The girl sitting behind the crumpled cardboard sign, panhandling across the street from the Bees stadium, doesn't know where she's going to sleep tonight. She doesn't know how she's going to buy her next meal. But she knows that little Monica Allen, growing up in West Valley City, never thought her life would turn out this way.

From the books on the shelf to the typewriters on the desk to the black shawl draped over the window, these are the items that make the small room inside the former Village Motel feel more like home for Leslie Moreno, who this summer was one of eight local young adults suffering from mental illnesses to take up residence in the new Daniel's Village.

The board of the New York State Housing Finance Agency (HFA) today approved $57 million in financing to build two affordable housing projects in Brooklyn with a total of 280 units. More than half of the units will be reserved for low-income tenants with special needs.

After securing millions in funding, a historic designation, and its share of delays, the conversion of the old Fifth Avenue Motel into housing for the homeless is finally underway.

Where we once built “housing of last resort” we are now building such iconic sustainable structures as architect Helmut Jahn’s Near North, a “new urbanism” prototype built for an unusual purpose - housing the homeless in Chicago.

Clare Housing is at a crossroads. It provides housing and support services to people with HIV/AIDS. During the past decade this part of the nonprofit world has seen a fair amount of consolidation. Clare has several options as it contemplates its next big move.

According to a report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau, 39.8 million people lived in poverty in 2008, a one-year increase of 2.6 million people and 6.85%. Even more troubling was the rise in the number of people in deep poverty. Those in households earning less than half of the federal poverty threshold rose by 7.69%, or 1.2 million people, to more than 17.0 million people.

Mayor Richard M. Daley today praised the efforts of Chicago’s philanthropic community in helping speed delivery of services funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to Chicago’s neighborhoods and residents and provided an update on projects that are already underway.