Plan for Transformation
Early next year, half of the residents at LeClaire Courts will have to leave their homes. Leaders say they shouldn't have to go without knowing what will be there if they choose to return.
23 hours ago | By Megan Cottrell
CHA will start requiring all public housing residents to get a job come January. They'll get more hlep finding day care for their children as they head off to work.
7 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
Bronzeville residents, aldermen at odds over proposed a referendum that would set aside city-owned vacant lots for middle income homes.
22 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
Residents at Lathrop Homes public housing are concerned about a possible plan to replace their community with a mixed-income housing development.
26 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
The Chicago Housing Authority will require all public housing tenants to work beginning in 2009. But some say that a lack of training and transit options are an impediment to the plan.
29 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
Church of the Good News members bid a tearful goodbye to the church that has been a haven to public housing residents and the surrounding neighborhood for 41 years.
6 months ago | By Claire Bushey
Advocates for public housing residents believe a decades-old statute may shield parents of young children from being forced to work outside the home, in conflict with new work requirements.
7 months ago | By Claire Bushey
Agency head Lewis Jordan says residents may be required to work or attend school. A crowd of about 350 turned out to hear about new plans at the CHA.
7 months ago | By Claire Bushey
With the credit and real estate markets reeling, officials see tough times for affordable housing. Prices for low-income housing tax credits, a primary source of funding for city projects, have fallen.
8 months ago | By Jennifer Slosar
A crowd of roughly 200 people attended the meeting on the South Side. Many worry proposed changes will have far-reaching, detrimental effects on residents' lives.
8 months ago | By Claire Bushey
In some cases, residents would be represented by a CHA-appointed ombudsman. Critics question whether an agency employee can be as independent as councils elected by public-housing residents.
8 months ago | By Claire Bushey
