Chicago Housing Authority

Tracey Scott, CEO
60 E. Van Buren
Chicago, IL
(312) 742-8500
(312) 913-7933
MTW Agency

By The numbers

Public Housing Units 20266
Vouchers 58526
Total Units 78792

Latest News

12.4.23 Members Making News
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release: The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) announced the new Restore Home initiative at the Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday, November 21, 2023. The initiative is part of the agency’s proposed 2024 budget and capital plan, which will be...
11.7.23 Members Making News
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release: Samantha Stokes grew up one of four children living under the roof of hard-working parents. Ends didn’t always meet, and she remembers being evicted as a child – something she vowed never to experience as an adult. Which is why Stokes says she...
11.7.23 Members Making News
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release: The Chicago Housing Authority partnered with the national non-profit Operation Warm for the 16th year Saturday at the UIC Forum, handing out 5,000 new winter coats to more than 2,000 families with children living in public housing and...
11.7.23 Members Making News
From Tracey Scott's op-ed in the Chicago Tribune: Amid unprecedented congressional uncertainty and unfinished business regarding a 2024 budget, federal support for affordable housing is urgently needed in Chicago. While the House narrowly avoided shutting down the federal government last month,...
9.13.23 Members Making News
From CBS News Chicago: Games, swimming, and summer fun! That's what nearly one hundred 15-year-olds living in Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) residences are experiencing as part of a Counselor-in-Training Program in partnership with the Chicago Park District. And as CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot...
9.13.23 Members Making News
From ABC 7 Chicago:  
9.13.23 Members Making News
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release: The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) is a proud recipient of 32,000 books from the National Book Foundation’s “Book Rich Environments” program, and has spent the summer distributing those books at its sites all over Chicago. About 20,000 books...
9.11.23 Members Making News
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release: The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) announced today that it is launching a pilot program to provide a grant of up to $1,500 per household to Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) holders who are required to move from troubled apartments. The grants will...
7.26.23 Members Making News
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release: The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) Board of Commissioners Tuesday advanced three major new housing developments on the West, North and Southwest Sides, including the first phase of the long-awaited LeClaire redevelopment effort. The other...

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