Celebrating Two Years in Office!
May 15, 2025 marks two full years since Alderwoman Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth’s inauguration day! In that time, we’ve been proud to serve you through countless community events, infrastructure improvements, public safety initiatives, day-to-day city services, policy work, and more. It’s important for us to continually reflect back on our work to see how far we’ve come and to help us look ahead at what’s next. In this post, you’ll find a list of resources that summarize our team’s work and the incredible strides that our community has made together. We look forward to what's ahead in the 48th ward in year three!
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In just two years we…
Completed 31,403 city service requests, a 24% increase from the two previous years.
Developed and implemented the Safe48 plan; violent crime is down 23% and robberies are down 35% from this time last year.
Passed Green Social Housing along with 200+ other ordinances, reslutions, and orders including Cut the Red Tape, One Fair Wage, ADU Expansion, and Chi v. Hate.
Introduced Participatory Budgeting to the 48th ward. Neighbors decided how to spend $2 million in their own tax-payer dollars.
Balanced the city budget without raising property taxes and while expanding Treatment not Trauma and reestablishing the Department of the Environment.
Planned over 150 affordable housing units.
Hosted over 110 community events, meetings, and resource fairs
Housed 70 neighbors.
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View a recap of our 2023 year-end town hall here. At this meeting, we summarized our team’s work in 2023 including:
The New Arrivals Mission
Support for Unhoused Neighbors
Health & Safety Partnerships
2023 Community Events
Red & Purple Modernization Overview
New Developments & Infrastructure
Community Events
Website & Communication Improvements
and more!
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View a recap of our 2024 year-end town hall here. At this meeting, we summarized our team’s work in 2024 including,
Leni’s City Hall Resolutions, Ordinances, & Orders
Budget Overview
Health & Safety Strategy Details
Zoning Changes
Granville Traffic Safety Project
Broadway Land Use Project
Honorary Street Signs
Participatory Budgeting
Ward Committees (ZAC, Youth Council, Green Council)
Communtiy Events
Website & Communications Improvements
and more!
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On August 14, 2024 our office held a town hall meeting to discuss 48th ward infrastructure projects including bicycle & pedestrian safety, people places, RPM, parks-based projects, and more. Read about everything we discussed at that meeting here.
Many of these projects are still ongoing, and many more have been added to the list. Our newsletter is the best place to keep up-to-date about infrastructure and construction.
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Over the past two years, we’ve collaborated with government agencies, community-based organizations, and neighbors on our Safe48 Health & Safety Plan. At the 48th ward office, we’re using a trauma-informed lens to disrupt the cycleof violence. To do this, we need to:
Increase capacity of our youth service providers to provide opportunities for our young people
Address the root causes of violence with workforce development, housing, and economic development.
Increase police presence with a community policing lens (i.e. foot and bike patrol)
Learn more here.
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Our office is proud to have brought Participatory Budgeting (PB) to the 48th ward for the very first time! PB is a process through which the community comes up with ideas for how we should spend out infrasrtutcure budget and then votes on those ideas.
See an overview of PB 2024.
See an overview of PB 2025.
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The 48th ward is full of engaged neighbors who are excited to work together to help our community thrive. Since our office opened, we’ve worked to create opportunities for collaboration and volunteerism including our committees:
