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?
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What will a Ben Carson-led HUD mean for the CHA?
The Chicago Housing Authority has more autonomy than other local agencies, but that won’t totally protect it from major Congressional budget cuts.
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The Goldberg variation: High-rise public housing that works
Bertrand Goldberg’s Hilliard Homes opened as a model community in 1966. It still is today.
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HUD proposal to tie Section 8 rents to zip codes worries housing advocates and the CHA—for different reasons
The CHA worries about mass displacement, but advocates worry voucher holders will be stuck where they are.
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A look back at Chicago’s public housing
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.
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The CHA’s ‘supervoucher’ program: a desegregation strategy that never was
Politics killed this pro-integration program before it had a chance to succeed.
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The fight to preserve a model public housing project
Lathrop Homes has long been one of CHA’s most diverse and successful properties. But today it’s a shell of its former self.
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A Discussion on Segregation, Fair Housing, and the Future
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 […]
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Affordable Housing: Now With Center for Neighborhood Technology Data
A new housing affordability index includes transportation costs, using data from Chicago’s Center for Neighborhood Technology.