Chicago Housing Authority

Housing Authority Looks At Buying 15% Of Olympic Village Units

Chicago Real Estate Daily | John Pletz | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago


The Chicago Housing Authority could buy up to 15% of the units in the Olympic Village planned for the former Michael Reese Hospital if the city is cho...

Mixed Income CHA Development Beset By Race And Class Strife

Chicago Public Radio | Natalie Moore | Posted 07.06.2009 | Chicago


There is a building called Westhaven Park Tower just a few blocks from the United Center on Chicago's near West Side. The building is part of the Chic...

Pilsen And Englewood Plan New Low-Income Housing

Chi-Town Daily News | Megan Cottrell | Posted 01.15.2009 | Chicago


Developers are poised to replace two vacant lots with much-needed housing in Englewood and Pilsen, neighborhoods that have a scarcity of dwellings, re...

Valerie Jarrett: 'Incredibly Plugged In,' For Better And Worse

Chicago Tribune | Laurie Cohen and Ray Gibson | Posted 12.22.2008 | Chicago


Valerie Jarrett--pal of a U.S. president-elect, confidant of the country's most powerful mayor and veteran of corporate boardrooms--has perfected the...

CHA Tells Residents To Get Jobs

Chi-Town Daily News | Megan Cottrell | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago


Public housing residents must have jobs to keep their homes under a controversial new policy adopted today by Chicago Housing Authority commissioners....

CHA Nabs Millions for Housing Aid

Chicago Tribune | Sara Olkon | Posted 10.27.2008 | Chicago


Housing Secretary Steven Preston said Friday that Chicago would get tens of millions of dollars to help improve mixed-income public housing and to hel...

Real Estate Woes Hurt CHA Plan For Transformation

Chicago Journal | Micah Maidenberg | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago


CHA has been criticized since the plan was announced in 1999 for how demolition of tens of thousands of units would affect Chicago's poorest. But now ...

Website Helps Low-Income Chicagoans Apply For Housing

Associated Content | Posted 04.25.2008 | Business


I know how hard applying for low-income housing can be. RentBetter.org is a website for Chicago families trying to apply for the housing. This is a in...