housing
Early next year, half of the residents at LeClaire Courts will have to leave their homes. Leaders say they shouldn't have to go without knowing what will be there if they choose to return.
6 hours ago | By Megan Cottrell
Bronzeville residents are trying to improve access to their community, hoping it will spur development and help residents gain better access to rest of the city.
2 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
CHA will start requiring all public housing residents to get a job come January. They'll get more hlep finding day care for their children as they head off to work.
6 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
Voters considered several referendums on Election Day, including proposals for affordable housing and requiring contractors under certain circumstances to pay "living wages" to workers.
14 days ago | By Peter Sachs
Eighty-seven percent of Bronzeville voters casts votes urging the mayor and the 2016 Olympic Committee to set aside 26 percent of the 1,800 vacant lots in the neighborhood for middle-income homeownership.
14 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
Bronzeville residents, aldermen at odds over proposed a referendum that would set aside city-owned vacant lots for middle income homes.
21 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
A City Council committee unanimously passed the code after environmental organizations and builders joined to support it. It is expected to cut Chicago's greenhouse gas emissions.
21 days ago | By Jennifer Slosar
A referedum on the Election Day ballot seeks to solve affordable housing problems by using a portion of property taxes to fix blight.
23 days ago | By Peter Sachs
Residents at Lathrop Homes public housing are concerned about a possible plan to replace their community with a mixed-income housing development.
26 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
North Side public housing complex residents protested against CHA policies that have led to 600 vacant units there during a time when many people are homeless.
26 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
The Chicago Housing Authority will require all public housing tenants to work beginning in 2009. But some say that a lack of training and transit options are an impediment to the plan.
29 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
Chicago Housing Authority officials pledge to get contractors to adhere to the requirement to hire some public housing residents to work for them. Residents complain that the contractors don't follow the policy.
1 month ago | By Megan Cottrell
A $70,000 grant will pay for a bilingual housing services center in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. The center offers classes and counseling to new homebuyers and those facing foreclosure.
1 month ago | By Megan Cottrell
The city Housing Authority is getting more money to continue development of the Park Boulevard, a mixed income housing development in Bronzeville. It replaces the Stateway Garden high rises.
1 month ago | By Megan Cottrell
Top official says public housing residents are better off now, but some advocates wonder if everyone was counted.
2 months ago | By Claire Bushey
