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Home » HUD

Tag: HUD

Posted inNews & Politics

The Chicago Housing Authority’s sleeping giant

by Maya Dukmasova October 18, 2017August 18, 2021

The CHA provides Section 8 vouchers to tens of thousands of low-income households. Is the agency trying to keep them from realizing their collective power?

Posted inBlogs

What will a Ben Carson-led HUD mean for the CHA?

by Maya Dukmasova January 4, 2017August 18, 2021

The Chicago Housing Authority has more autonomy than other local agencies, but that won’t totally protect it from major Congressional budget cuts.

Posted inNews & Politics

The Goldberg variation: High-rise public housing that works

by Maya Dukmasova October 5, 2016August 18, 2021

Bertrand Goldberg’s Hilliard Homes opened as a model community in 1966. It still is today.

Posted inBlogs

HUD proposal to tie Section 8 rents to zip codes worries housing advocates and the CHA—for different reasons

by Maya Dukmasova September 9, 2016August 18, 2021

The CHA worries about mass displacement, but advocates worry voucher holders will be stuck where they are.

Posted inBlogs

A look back at Chicago’s public housing

by Renata Cherlise June 1, 2016August 18, 2021

On the 50th anniversary of a landmark desegregation lawsuit, the Reader and Blvck Vrchives offer this visual sampler of the city’s segregated housing past.

Posted inNews & Politics

The CHA’s ‘supervoucher’ program: a desegregation strategy that never was

by Maya Dukmasova and Meribah Knight April 28, 2016August 18, 2021

Politics killed this pro-integration program before it had a chance to succeed.

Lathrop Homes, one of the country's first public housing developments and the second in Chicago, was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
Posted inNews & Politics

The fight to preserve a model public housing project

by Maya Dukmasova June 12, 2014August 18, 2021

Lathrop Homes has long been one of CHA’s most diverse and successful properties. But today it’s a shell of its former self.

Posted inBlogs

A Discussion on Segregation, Fair Housing, and the Future

by Alex Parker May 3, 2011August 19, 2021

We’ve read a lot lately about Chicago’s shifting demographics. The 2010 census illustrated how Chicago is a shrinking city. The suburbs are growing, changing our economy. Public housing that once defined parts of the Chicago is gone. Yet for all the alterations Chicago has undergone, it remains a case of the more things change, the […]

Posted inBlogs

Affordable Housing: Now With Center for Neighborhood Technology Data

by Whet Moser March 24, 2010August 19, 2021

A new housing affordability index includes transportation costs, using data from Chicago’s Center for Neighborhood Technology.

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