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Increased Numbers

In 1999, more than 6,000 families lived on the 10 public housing sites slated for redevelopment. The Chicago Housing Authority has been finishing new homes at a slower pace than originally planned and has to pick up the pace in the coming years.

Notes: Units shown are for public housing residents and don’t include homes for higher-income or market-rate tenants. “Current plans” from 2002 to 2004 represent actual units completed.
Sources: Chicago Housing Authority annual plans from 2002 and 2005; analyzed by The Chicago Reporter.



News And Events
Aug 8The Chicago Reporter’s Fernando Diaz has been awarded the 2008 Emerging Journalist of the Year from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

Diaz will be honored at the association’s 23rd annual Noche de Triunfos Journalism Awards Gala held Sept. 12 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.