Through the efforts of the Lugenia Burns Hope Center, with the Institute’s consultation, Bronzeville residents have worked during the past 20 years to convince Chicago’s leaders to develop a pioneering program of affordable homeownership on their community’s hundreds of city-owned vacant lots.

RESULTS:

• The group continues to work with it’s development team to build the first phase of new affordable homes on thirteen vacant lots in the Bronzeville South community of Washington Park.

• An award-winning documentary, “Blueprint for Bronzeville,” about Housing Bronzeville’s work has been viewed by more than 700 residents at the Gene Siskel Film Center, other mid-west film festivals, Chicago Public Libraries, Bronzeville’s Parkway Ballroom, and the Oakwood Shores Senior Center since it premiered on August 28, 2017 at Chicago’s Black Harvest Film Festival. The documentary is available for purchase at: https://www.housingbronzeville.com/