Where Did Relocated Public Housing Tenants Go? CHA Report Details
(Chicago Sun Times) — Since the Chicago Housing Authority began tearing down high- and mid-rise buildings and relocating residents a decade ago, 32 percent have returned to its new or rehabbed housing,...
View ArticleResidents Balk at CHA Plans for Tenant Drug Testing
(Chicago Defender) — Hundreds of Chicago Housing Authority residents displeased with the notion of being forcibly drug tested and facing eviction if family members of tenants are accused of a crime,...
View ArticleIn Chicago, Public Housing Residents Asked To Submit To Drug Tests
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View Article$71.8 Million From HUD to Improve Public Housing in Georgia
(AJC) — The Department of Housing and Urban Development gave Georgia $71.8 million to renovate and improve public housing.The money can be spent on large-scale improvements such as new roofs,...
View ArticleCity Warned on Cabrini Housing
(Chicago Sun Times) — A federal judge this week put the city on notice that it has to speed up efforts to acquire the former Near North high school site for redevelopment into replacement housing for...
View Article33 Cabrini-Green Families Have 180 Days to Find New Housing
(Chicago Sun Times) — The Chicago Housing Authority — citing safety concerns — plans to evict the 33 families still living in the Cabrini-Green rowhouses that have not been rehabbed, the agency said...
View ArticleCHA Applied First-Strike Eviction Policy Broadly, Analysis Shows
(Chicago News Cooperative) — Nothing could have prepared Jessica Moore for the morning 19 Chicago police officers rushed her front door around 8 o’clock. According to police reports, they found $48 of...
View ArticleEmanuel Expected to Name New CHA Head Thursday
(Chicago Tribune) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday is expected to name an outsider from Charlotte, N.C., to head the Chicago Housing Authority, according to a top City Hall source. Charles Woodyard,...
View ArticleFor Cabrini-Green Residents, a Rough Reception at New Home
(Chicago News Cooperative) — On a cold morning last December, a former teacher’s aide and grandmother named Annie Ricks was the last tenant to leave the last high-rise at the Cabrini-Green public...
View ArticleNew CHA Chief to ‘Think Outside the Box’ in Transforming Public Housing
(Chicago Sun Times) — The public housing chief in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday made the giant leap to Chicago with a promise to “think outside the box” and provide more support services for displaced...
View ArticleHousing Vouchers Help Low-Income Families Thrive In Better Neighborhoods
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