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September, 2007
In 1997, the Chicago Housing Authority moved Twanna Johnson and her four children out of a Cabrini-Green high-rise on Chicago's Near North Side.
With the help of a federal Section 8 rental subsidy, Johnson, 31, moved more than eight miles south to a privately-owned apartment in Washington Park. Hoping to maintain stability for her children while the family waited to move back to a...
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September, 2007
For the first time in six years, the Chicago Housing Authority spent an entire year under city–"not federal–"control, and showed signs of making significant changes in the lives of Chicago's 23,162 public housing families.
The year began with the CHA board approving its 10-year, $1.5 billion "Plan for Transformation," to demolish 51 high-rises and create mixed-income communities of publicly...
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September, 2007
Ferrell Freeman, 48, first moved into the Addams-Brooks-Loomis-Abbott public housing development on Chicago's Near West Side in 1954. ABLA is her home, and she has no desire to leave.
So in the summer of 1996, when the Chicago Housing Authority went to Housing Court for permission to demolish her building at 1328-44 W. Taylor St., a judge ordered it vacated and Freeman got herself a lawyer....
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September, 2007
At a March 9 luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown, the Chicago Housing Authority inaugurated 24 presidents of Local Advisory Councils, or LACs, the official resident leadership groups elected every three years.
The event's program includes a congratulatory note from Mayor Richard M. Daley with a telling typo: "We share your vision of a and together we will make revolutionary changes...
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August, 2007
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August, 2007
Most of the low-income families leaving Chicago's public housing behind–"with the help of federal rent subsidies–"are trading one poor, African American city neighborhood for another, an investigation by The Chicago Reporter has found.
The Chicago Housing Authority provided the rental certificates, known as Section 8, to 1,044 families whose public housing units have been slated for closure...
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August, 2007
The Chicago Housing Authority's plan to rebuild public housing on the sites of its worst high-rises may not go far enough to end racial and economic segregation, a federal judge has ruled.
On Feb. 23, U.S. District Judge Marvin E. Aspen ordered the CHA to build half of its replacement public housing outside of depressed black neighborhoods as a way of reversing years of discrimination....
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August, 2007
Gautreaux: A series of agreements and court orders dating back to a 1966 lawsuit that pitted public housing tenants against the Chicago Housing Authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The agencies agreed to move 7,100 public housing families out of segregated areas.
HOPE VI: The federally funded Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere program aims to change...
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August, 2007
But that simple theory has proven very difficult in practice. In fact, no problem facing public housing has been more intractable.
In 1969, as part of the Gautreaux Consent Decree, a federal judge ordered the Chicago Housing Authority to build scattered-site housing in areas that were no more than 30 percent African American, or were in the process of economic revitalization.
In...
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