Real Estate Woes Hurt CHA Plan For Transformation

Real Estate Woes Hurt CHA Plan For Transformation

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 developers involved in building anew are finding their market-rate units aren't selling. Like other developers, they've been drilled by the national housing crisis. And neighbors in mixed-income areas sometimes struggle to deal with each other.

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