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Chicago City Council weighs PRO versus FAIR rental ordinance rewrites

The two proposals advanced from separate city council committees, setting up a fight over tenant protections, landlord costs, and the city’s housing production strategy.

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HousingWire reports that Chicago City Council is weighing two competing rewrites to the city’s rental rules, with one plan focused on new tenant protections and fee-funded enforcement and the other emphasizing exemptions and faster permitting.

According to HousingWire, the debate centers on how the ordinances would balance renter safeguards, landlord costs, and the city’s housing production strategy as affordability pressure mounts.

HousingWire also notes that Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Protecting Renters Ordinance, known as PRO, and the rival Fair and Accountable Illinois Rental Ordinance, or FAIR, advanced from separate city council committees last week, moving the proposals closer to a showdown.

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