Chicago Housing Authority
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Public Housing Units 20266
Vouchers 58526
Total Units 78792
Latest News
12.5.19
Members Making News
From Block Club Chicago:
Two mission-based developers have joined together to propose a new Rogers Park project that would provide LGBTQ-friendly senior housing and artist live/work space.
The $30 million project would bring 81 apartments to the corner of Ashland Avenue and Howard Street,...
10.31.19
Members Making News
From the Chicago Defender:
As National Digital Inclusion Week gets underway, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) announced it has been selected as a 2019 ConnectHomeUSA Cohort that allows public housing authorities to access high-quality internet and other resources aimed at closing the...
10.31.19
Members Making News
From ABC 7 Chicago:
Thousands of children in Chicago now have new winter coats, just in time for the upcoming cold months.
The Chicago Housing Authority held its 12th annual "Operation Warm Coat" at the UIC Forum on Saturday.
Operation Warm, a national nonprofit, donated 7,500 coats for...
10.10.19
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From the Chicago Defender:
Chicago Housing Authority officials today joined Evergreen Real Estate Group, the City of Chicago Department of Housing and the community to celebrate the opening of Independence Apartments, a mixed-income apartment building that brings affordable housing for seniors to...
10.10.19
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CHA Joins Partners to Celebrate Opening of Pierce House at La Casa Norte (Chicago Housing Authority)
From Lawndale News:
Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) officials joined La Casa Norte, the City of Chicago Department of Housing, local elected officials and members of the community to dedicate Pierce House, which brings 25 units of supportive housing to the Humboldt Park community. The one and...
9.26.19
Members Making News
From The Chicago Citizen:
The Chicago Housing Authority and its partners officially opened an innovative mixed-use development Thursday that has brought a new Target and affordable/market-rate apartments to Rogers Park.
The result of a partnership between CHA, Three Corners Development/...
9.12.19
Members Making News
From the Urban Institute:
Altgeld Gardens, a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) development, is an isolated community on the far south side of the city and is home to nearly 1,500 families. But it doesn’t have a single grocery store.
Within the past year, the only two food outlets in the community—a...
9.12.19
Members Making News
From the Chicago Tribune:
Let’s dispense with the obvious, shall we? Three new Chicago buildings, which combine public libraries and public housing, are head and shoulders above the Robert Taylor Homes, Cabrini-Green and the rest of the city’s dehumanizing, now-demolished public housing projects...
6.28.19
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From Yahoo Finance:
"In a first of its kind public and private sector innovation project for Chicago, the Dearborn Homes public housing development that serves more than 600 families in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, is producing clean, renewable energy from the sun with private solar...
6.28.19
Members Making News
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
"When she was a little kid, Niesha Chism would sometimes pack a suitcase, heave it over the next-door neighbor’s fence and “run away” from home.
Some two decades later, Chism, now 33, sees her 2-year-old son head in the opposite direction — to the South Chicago...
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