Citing their lack of input in the process, members of a Chicago City Council committee deferred on Thursday a set of ordinances that would have let Chicago’s Department of Housing and Economic Development transfer city-owned, distressed properties to a nonprofit lender.
“I think that you forgot to include aldermen in this project,” Alderman Ray Saurez (31st) told Anthony Simpkins, deputy commissioner of HED’s preservation division. “We’re going to have to hold this.”