09/24/2026
PRO and FAIR Deferred to Next City Council Meeting
The Chicago City Council has deferred votes on both the Protecting Renters Ordinance (PRO) and the FAIR ordinance. The next opportunity for a vote comes at the Council’s next meeting, which could happen as early as Tuesday, September 29.
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You can’t make housing more affordable by making it more expensive to provide housing. NBOA will keep making that case as this fight continues.
09/16/2026
PRO Passes Committee
Stephen Rich, Jr, Board Member of the NBOA: “Both PRO and FAIR miss the mark, which is making housing more affordable and wealth creation more attainable.”
09/17/2026
PRO Passes Out of Committee
Michael Glasser, the president of the Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance of Chicago, said the vote “represented a mistaken impulse to layer costs and burdens on the buildings that house the working families of Chicago’s neighborhoods. Every measure in the ordinance makes it harder to offer affordable rents to the working families who need them. Not a single measure does anything to reduce costs or to add a single new unit of housing.”
09/15/2026
Statement on Latest Revision To Mayor Johnson’s Protecting Renters Ordinance
Every fee, fine, and rule this ordinance adds lands on the people who provide affordable housing, and gets passed straight through to the tenants of Chicago’s neighborhoods. Every provision adds to the cost. Nothing in it reduces the cost by a penny or adds a single unit of housing.
The version going to a vote tomorrow still carries the full weight of what we’ve opposed from the start: new fees, new fines, a new bureaucracy, and the assumption that City Hall knows how to operate rental housing better than the owners who provide 70% of the affordable housing in Chicago.
A large, out-of-town corporate landlord spreads new fees, fines, and compliance costs across hundreds of units. A neighborhood owner with one building can’t do that.
The harder this ordinance makes it for local providers to stay in business, the fewer of them will remain to offer the affordable housing that hard-working families actually rely on — and the more housing ends up in the hands of the very corporate landlords this ordinance claims to guard against.
No matter how the Mayor rearranges this ordinance, he will never make housing more affordable by making it more expensive to provide housing.
Michael Glasser
President, Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance (NBOA)!
09/16/2026
Johnson’s PRO Compromise Falls Short
One of the city’s key landlord groups argued Johnson’s updated plan is no real compromise. Every new rule, fee and fine still in the ordinance will add costs that get passed on to tenants to make renting more expensive, said Michael Glasser, president of the Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance.
The measure heading for a vote Wednesday “still carries the full weight” of the original proposal and will ultimately force neighborhood owners to struggle and sell to corporate behemoths, Glasser said.
“No matter how the Mayor rearranges the provisions of this ordinance, he will never make housing more affordable by making it more expensive to provide housing,” Glasser wrote.
09/16/2026
PRO will Raise Costs for Renters
September 16, 2026, Chicago Tribune. Ald. Gilbert Villegas: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Protecting Renters Ordinance will raise costs for renters. Opinion: Protecting Renters Ordinance will raise costs for renters
“We cannot claim to champion affordability while advancing policies that make housing more expensive to operate.”
09/16/2026
Statement on Mayor Johnson’s Protecting Renters Ordinance Heading to Full Council
Today, the Committee on Housing and Real Estate voted to send Mayor Johnson’s ordinance to the full City Council.
This vote represented a mistaken impulse to layer costs and burdens on the buildings that house the working families of Chicago’s neighborhoods. Every measure in the ordinance makes it harder to offer affordable rents to the working families who need them. Not a single measure does anything to reduce costs or to add a single new unit of housing.
The fight now moves to the full Council. We’ll keep making the case there that we’ve made from the start: you can’t make housing more affordable by making it more expensive to provide housing.
Michael Glasser
President, Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance (NBOA)
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