Nicholas Brunick
312.491.3328
nbrunick@att-law.com

PRACTICE:

Nick Brunick concentrates his practice in real estate and affordable housing development and finance.  While serving as the Director of Affordable Housing for Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, Nick worked with developers, housing advocates, municipal officials, and community and faith-based groups to draft and pass local and state ordinances and statutes aimed at creating, preserving, and rehabilitating more affordable housing.  He also worked with municipalities, developers, and community groups to design affordable housing plans, to include affordable housing in new market-rate developments and to draft appropriate legal instruments to ensure that affordable homes would stay affordable over the long term.  He has spoken widely and published articles on local and state strategies for creating affordable housing.  At BPI, Nick also served as plaintiff class counsel for the Gautreaux plaintiff class on public housing matters in the City of Chicago.  In that capacity, Nick served on Working Groups guiding the public housing redevelopment process at the Cabrini-Green and ABLA Homes Redevelopments and handled a variety of legal matters concerning relocation, habitability, financing, and fair housing issues.  

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Applegate and Thorne-Thomsen, P.C., July 2005 to present
Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPI)
           Director, Regional Affordable Housing Initiative, 2002-2005
           Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellow and Staff Counsel, 2000-2002

ADMISSION TO PRACTICE:

State of Illinois

EDUCATION:

University of Texas School of Law and LBJ School of Public Affairs
            J.D. and Masters of Public Affairs, with Honors, 2000
            Member, Order of the Coif and Chancellor’s Society
North Central College, B.A., summa cum laude, 1996

 

 

 

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