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The new town houses and commercial building going up along Wealthy and Sigsbee streets seem like an obvious sign gentrification has arrived on the city's near Southeast Side.
But Uptown Village is being built for the opposite reason, said David Allen, executive director of Lighthouse Communities.
The 24 apartments and town houses are being built as low-income housing to ensure longtime residents won't be forced out of the neighborhood by rising home prices, said Allen, whose nonprofit housing group is one of the project's developers.
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