These rental units are now occupied. Phase 2 is now starting on rehab of two 6 flats into 12 condos across the alley. Additional new construction of 10 townhouses and the common house for the entire project will be built later. Over all orientation will be to promote a healthy environment. Serious efforts will be make to make it affordable.
Common house has children's area and adult learning center in addition to dinning and kitchen area.
Built and owned by low income working poor. The organization was started by the Center for Neighborhood Technology in 1990 to provide training and technical assistance to cooperatives and mutual housing organizations. Their program assists developers and residents of mutual housing, affordable cooperatives, condominiums, and other resident controlled mutl-family housing to get a project off the ground or improve existing housing. Since 1990 the network has assisted in the development of over 2,000 units of mutual housing in the Chicago metropolitan area. In the fall of 1997 Stone Soup found its current home for its 18 members on North Ashland a former convent building for a local Catholic school.