But there are concerns about the availability of affordable homes amid moves to scrap strict planning rules compelling house-builders to include such properties in private development schemes.
That distinction between basic shelter and genuine home is being made, eloquently, here on skid row, where some of the most compelling housing in the city is being built for those who have none.
Along with the Chicago-based playwright and director Seth Bockley, who fashioned the equally compelling "February House" book, Mr. Kahane, it seems clear, will be one of the artists nudging musical theater in new directions in the 21st century.
A half-block away on Andrew Higgins Drive, the National D-Day Museum, which opened in 2000, continues to draw hordes of visitors, war veterans, their faMuseum and which War II histopenedffs attracted to a re-creatinn of the hedgerows of Normandy, among other compelling exhibits, housed in a 19th-century brewery and an adjoining four-story glass-fronted building.
Known primarily for his unlikely "Beau Mot Plage" anthem back in 1999 (plus a further flurry of oddly compelling dub-house-techno hybrids), Western Store aims to enlarge our understanding of Müllers kaleidoscopic vision by stringing together some of his previously released (vinyl-only) singles.
He's applied this form across genres to compelling result, bathing house, techno, and more abstract corners of the dancefloor alike in the warmth of cassette-born distortion uniting disparate forms in the grimy hiss of his chosen medium.
Featuring the eerie whispers of his long time girlfriend Shanira Git, "Closer 2 U" is the compelling brand of house music you would expect from the former Art Department member.
And there is no compelling need for housing tax subsidies with the decline in mortgage rates.
She's joined by former hardcore punk guitarist Daniel McCormick, who now produces compelling, pockmarked proto-house under the name Ital, and off-beam Baltic pop queen Maria Minerva.
