Portfolio of Properties

PORTFOLIO SUMMARY – 14 buildings / 214 units
VOICE OWNED AND MANAGED PROPERTIES
Voice Preservation Project	22 units
4409-11 N. Racine (8 units)
4861-63 N. Kenmore (6 units)
4927-29 N. Kenmore (8 units)
SPONSORED DEVELOPMENTS WITH PARTNERS General Partner – Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc. (POAH) Property Manager – POAH Communities Resident Services Provider – Voice of the People
Clifton Magnolia Apartments 4416-26 N. Clifton (35 units) 4416-22 N. Magnolia (24 units)	59 units
Hazel/Winthrop Apartments 912 W. Montrose Avenue (6 units) 4426 N. Magnolia Avenue (6 units) 4813 N. Winthrop Avenue (6 units) 852-54 W. Sunnyside/4509-11 N. Hazel (12 units)	30 units
Heart of Uptown Apartments 4130 N. Kenmore (14 units) 847-49 W. Sunnyside (12 units) 4431-41 N. Clifton Avenue (18 units) 900-02 W. Windsor/4534-40 N. Hazel (18 units) 927 W. Wilson Avenue (41 units)	103 units

Development Milestones

2024-26  Voice begins expansion of the Voice Owners Network Program (VON) that prioritizes preservation via a city-funded Technical Assistance Center and an innovative community land trust, the Dovie Thurman Affordable Housing Trust. Voice fosters networking, professional development among key staff (asset managers, property managers and resident service providers) as well as advocacy support services to allies. The overall goal is to save existing affordable housing from troubled building status, market rate sales or foreclosures that can result in a net loss of affordable housing opportunities to people who need it most.  We’re committed to sustainably diverse communities, with service-enriched, permanently affordable housing as their cornerstone resource. Since 2024, VON has facilitated training/advocacy in tax relief initiatives and played important roles in saving the San Miguel Apartments and the Leland Hotel, with over 300 units of affordable housing. Because VON affordable housing owners and their supporters are in the north lakefront region, and citywide via multiple platforms, the organization has adopted the d/b/a name of Voice of the People Chicago to encompass that. 

2022-25  Voice and its national partner, POAH, closed on recapitalization, refinancing, rehab and modernization to two partnership projects: Uptown Preservation and Sunnyside Kenmore, to comprise a 5-building development called the Heart of Uptown Apartments (HUPA). It will provide 103 new leased homes to existing Voice tenants with renovation beginning in 2025. Read More about it at vophousing.com/HUPA.

2019-20  Voice has restructured programs, financed improvements and completed energy upgrades on three properties (the Voice Preservation Project) with support of the Community Investment Corporation (CIC). The organization has strategically planned transition of partnership properties control from historical partner, Chicago Community Development Corporation (CCDC), to new partner of national prominence, Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc. (POAH).

2012 Voice closed on the most recent partnership development project, Hazel Winthrop Apartments-a scattered site with three 6-flats and a 12 unit corner building totaling 30 units of spacious Section 8 housing. Chicago Community Development Corporation (CCDC), headed by Tony Fusco, had been Voice of the People’s lead partner on this development and others completed since 2007.

2010 Voice closed on our third preservation project, Clifton Magnolia Apartments which includes two vintage courtyard buildings with 59 units of family housing featuring ‘green’ solutions with solar water heaters, energy efficient replacement windows, appliances, new roofs, and boiler systems.

2008 Sunnyside Kenmore Apartments (SKA) a 26-unit two corridor building received a significant facelift.

2007 Uptown Preservation Apts (UPA) a 77-unit, originally comprised of three troubled properties with expired tax credits and part of a disposition program of the extinct syndicator Chicago Equity Fund and received a complete rehab.

1993 Voice developed and constructed 28 town homes for low- and moderate-income families to purchase. This new community became known as International Homes.

1992 Lakeview Towers Preservation Corporation (LTPC), a not-for-profit entity formed by Voice of the People, became the owners of Lakeview Towers at 4550 N. Clarendon Avenue. LTPC purchased Lakeview Towers to ensure that the properties 500 units would remain affordable for current and future tenants.