About
Fifth City Commons is a new-construction affordable housing development in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side that will include 43 apartments built to Passive House standards. Over four years in the making, it was part of the C40 Reinventing Competition for Cities – that encouraged cities across the globe to offer vacant land for sustainable and net-zero development. The development sits at the gateway to a part of Garfield Park called Fifth City and was named after this geography through a community-driven process, and in honor of the community development organization active in the neighborhood starting in the 1960s whose message and legacy still resonates today.
