Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/category/key-issue/housing/page/2/)
The Chicago Transit Authority plans to acquire some homes to extend the “L” and affected residents want to ensure they’re fairly compensated in neighborhoods that have been especially slow to recover from the housing crash.
The Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance gave renters legal protections from bad landlords, but a proposal to change it would leave certain penalties to a judge’s discretion.
Private developers behind a plan to demolish public housing on the North Side are accused of concealing financing uncertainties.
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.