Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/category/key-issue/housing/page/2/)
By both holding back vouchers and planning to cut public housing units from Lathrop Homes, CHA is failing to expand opportunities for poor families.
Residents and advocates want CHA to ensure that the redevelopment of Lathrop Homes will benefit low-income Chicagoans, not just developers.
The co-editor of an upcoming book recounts the outset of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Union to End Slums campaign in Chicago.
An upcoming book assesses the impact of Martin Luther King Jr.’s efforts to bring the civil rights movement to Chicago through a campaign for open housing.
Advocates want to see Mark Diamond face criminal charges and be put out of business permanently, while other black homeowners he targeted hope to obtain restitution soon.
Experts and residents are divided on the benefits and fairness of a national smoking ban in public housing units.
The Affordable Requirements Ordinance, ARO, forces developers to create more affordable housing and pay more into a city fund for the housing.
HUD asked the owner of a Section 8 housing development on the city’s Far South Side to cancel the security contract after a Reporter investigation. But the private security company can still work at other federally subsidized properties.
A recent settlement agreement with the Chicago Housing Authority would end a 2013 lawsuit filed by the Cabrini-Green Local Advisory Council, but not all of the redevelopment issues are settled.
Some housing experts say the federal agency’s action won’t address oversight issues at Section 8 properties.