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Ellen K. Sahli
Commissioner of Housing
Department of Community Development
Ellen Sahli is the First Deputy Commissioner of the City
of Chicago’s Department of Community Development
and the designated point person for Mayor Richard M.
Daley’s housing agenda.
Since 1989, under the leadership
of Mayor Daley, Chicago has accessed #4 billion to assist
more than 150,000 housing units throughout the city,
including new single family homes, rental housing for
working families and senior citizens and single-room-occupancy
buildings.
The City’s comprehensive approach to affordable
housing includes not only the Mayor’s fourth
Affordable Housing Five-Year Plan but also supports
the Chicago Housing Authority’s Plan for Transformation
and the city’s Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness.
As First Deputy Commissioner,
Ms. Sahli directs the department’s operations and activities
to ensure that the Mayor’s ambitious goals
for housing and community development are met. This
includes:
• Overseeing more that $500 million in annual housing
investments including single family homes, rental
housing for working families and senior citizens
and single-room-occupancy buildings.
• Leading the comprehensive strategy to invest $55
million of federal funds to purchase and rehabilitate
vacant and foreclosed homes.
Directing a holistic approach to foreclosure prevention.
• Managing the department’s strategic
commitments of local resources, creative program
design and aggressive advocacy for state and federal
assistance.
Ms Sahli
previously served as the Commissioner of the Department
of Housing and also served as the Mayor’s Liaison
on Homelessness and Supportive Housing with primary
responsibility for the Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness.
Prior
to joining the City of Chicago in 1999, Ms. Sahli
served as a key staff member at the Corporation for
Supportive Housing and the Mental Health Association
of Illinois.
A social worker by profession, Ms. Sahli holds a
Master of Social Work from the Jane Addams College
of Social Work, University of Illinois-Chicago.
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