What’s the Answer? 

Send a pre-written message today telling the Mayor to cut the red tape on housing regulations to attract new business, reduce crime and create more safe, quality, affordable housing.

Hazel Crest Residents Want New Businesses and New Jobs

• 62% of residents rated “bring new businesses and new jobs to Hazel Crest” a priority for the mayor. 55% of those rank it a High Priority.
• Prioritizing housing affordability has been shown to increase business attraction and economic development. (graphics from the footnoted source).
• Every time a home is purchased in Illinois, it generates $87,100 in local economic impact and two jobs.

Hazel Crest residents want reduced crime.

• 64% of residents rated “Reducing Crime” a priority for the mayor. 55% of those rank it a high priority.
• Prioritizing quality housing, both homeownership and rental, for Hazel Crest families creates safer neighborhoods and reduces crime.

Hazel Crest residents want “new, quality, safe, and affordable housing.”

• 52% of residents think the mayor should prioritize “new, quality, safe, and affordable housing for Hazel Crest.”
• 46% of residents approve of reforming Hazel Crest’s rental building regulations to improve the quality, safety and affordability of apartments and single-family homes. Only 10% disapprove.
• Homeownership is a major factor in creating household and generational wealth.

Hazel Crest’s Mayor and City Council Can Address Our Priorities by Prioritizing Housing!

• Fix Hazel Crest’s broken rental regulations.
• The current regulations were meant to bring in fees and fines.
• But they’re so full of red tape – they can’t be enforced – and lead to more vacant and run-down housing.
• Rewrite the regulations so they work: it will make existing housing nicer, encourage new quality, safe, affordable housing – and bring in more revenue.

Tell the Mayor: cut the red tape on housing regulations to attract new business, reduce crime and create more safe, quality, affordable housing.