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July, 2012
In November, more than 100 people gathered at the New Life Community Church of West Lakeview near the Julia C. Lathrop Homes to kick off the planning for the public housing development’s future. The Chicago Housing Authority has billed this effort as unique in the history of its Plan for Transformation, a 12-year effort to change its developments into mixed-income communities. Instead of its...
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October, 2007
The Habitat Co. ended up in the public housing business because of the "incompetence and intransigence" of the Chicago Housing Authority, Alexander Polikoff recalls.
Polikoff, a staff attorney for Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, a public interest law firm, was a 39-year-old lawyer in 1966 when he filed a federal class-action lawsuit on behalf of CHA resident Dorothy...
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October, 2007
Two of every three residents surveyed this spring at the Robert Taylor Homes on Chicago's South Side oppose the Chicago Housing Authority's proposal to demolish the development and move some tenants into the private housing market with federal Section 8 subsidies, The Chicago Reporter has learned.
The Reporter's analysis of preliminary results for April and May show that 68 percent of 193...
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September, 2007
In 1997, the Chicago Housing Authority filed eviction lawsuits against more than one-fourth of the families living in the Cabrini Homes Extension, a mix of 15 mid- and high-rise buildings on the city's near North Side.
But of those 231 families, only 39 actually were evicted that year, a pattern repeated throughout the public housing system, according to Cook County Circuit Court records and...
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September, 2007
Desperate for a place to live after losing their apartment in February, 45-year-old Mary Smiley and four of her children, ages 9 to 19, took a risk. Without a lease or permission, the family moved into a Chicago Housing Authority high-rise at 5247 S. Federal St., in the Robert Taylor Homes public housing development.
They occupied a vacant, though rehabbed apartment on the 9th floor. Smiley...
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September, 2007
Next spring, Tenesha Anderson will leave high school with two things she was not sure she would ever get: a diploma and a career.
After graduating from Aspen Alternative High School in south suburban Robbins, the 19-year-old senior will study at Moraine Valley Community College, in Palos Hills, to be a medical technician.
"I kind of got kicked out," she said of her old school, Dwight D...
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September, 2007
'They want to get us out of here," said Lisa Mayo. The 40-year-old mother of five was looking north from 47th Street toward one of the last high-rises at the Chicago Housing Authority's Robert Taylor Homes---the building she has lived in her entire life.
It is slated to be torn down this year, and, although replacement homes for the vanished buildings are going up right around the corner,...
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September, 2007
When Algie Crivens III was released from prison in 1999, he thought his nearly decade-long nightmare had ended. After he was convicted of a 1989 murder, a judge sentenced Crivens to 20 years in prison. But, in 1999, a federal court ruled Cook County prosecutors had withheld evidence in his 1992 trial; Crivens was retried in 2000 and found not guilty. Former Gov. George H. Ryan later pardoned him...
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September, 2007
The Chicago Housing Authority is stepping up evictions in buildings it has targeted for redevelopment–"a move that reduces the number of public housing tenants the agency must provide with replacement housing, an investigation by The Chicago Reporter shows.
From Jan. 1, 1995, to Aug. 31, 1998, the CHA evicted 1,003 families from the 13 developments the agency wants to "revitalize," according...
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