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Chris Fusco

Posted inGovernment Finance & Accountability

CHA Paid Alleged Gang Leader Thousands To House Tenants

by Chris Fusco and Tim Novak September 17, 2016November 10, 2022

Johnny Herndon was paid $34,000 a year to provide apartments to Section 8 public housing residents.

Posted inEquity & Economic Opportunity

Chicago Housing Authority Places Families In Crime-Plagued Neighborhoods

by Brett Chase, Chris Fusco, Tim Novak and Mick Dumke September 10, 2016November 10, 2022

The high-rise projects were torn down years ago to place families in safer settings. Yet public housing residents today face violent crime throughout the city.

Posted inEquity & Economic Opportunity

Daley’s CHA Plan Jolted Region

by Brett Chase, Chris Fusco, Tim Novak and Mick Dumke June 25, 2016November 10, 2022

Every Chicago neighborhood and almost every suburb felt the impact of public housing transformation.

Posted inEquity & Economic Opportunity

CHA’s Transformation Reshaped A City

by Brett Chase, Chris Fusco, Tim Novak and Mick Dumke June 25, 2016November 10, 2022

In some neighborhoods, new clusters of subsidized housing. In others, poverty is ‘a lot more invisible now.’

Posted inEquity & Economic Opportunity

Public Housing Families Flee to Suburbs

by Brett Chase, Chris Fusco, Tim Novak and Mick Dumke June 25, 2016November 10, 2022

The number of subsidized households in Chicago’s suburbs jumped almost 30 percent since 2000.

Posted inEquity & Economic Opportunity

CHA’s Section 8 Contractors May Get Booted

by Brett Chase, Chris Fusco, Tim Novak and Mick Dumke June 12, 2016November 10, 2022

In wake of Sun-Times/BGA stories on public housing tenants living in apartments with code violations, CHA may stop outsourcing Section 8 management.

Posted inEquity & Economic Opportunity

The CHA’s Waiting Game

by Brett Chase, Chris Fusco, Tim Novak and Mick Dumke May 22, 2016November 10, 2022

Thousands spent years waiting in line for CHA housing aid, while others spent only a few days or weeks.

Posted inEquity & Economic Opportunity

CHA Tenants Shiver, City Sues Landlords

by Chris Fusco and Tim Novak April 25, 2016November 10, 2022

City Hall filed more than 200 lawsuits this year against landlords for inadequate heat. Dozens of those cases involve buildings subsidized through the Chicago Housing Authority.

Posted inEquity & Economic Opportunity

Cashing In On The CHA

by Brett Chase, Chris Fusco, Tim Novak and Mick Dumke April 23, 2016November 10, 2022

Sun-Times/BGA report finds that, since the CHA started razing high-rises, providing housing for the poor has become a growth industry for private landlords.

Posted inEquity & Economic Opportunity

Comfortable Apartment, But ‘Neighborhood Is Trouble’

by Brett Chase, Chris Fusco, Tim Novak and Mick Dumke April 23, 2016November 10, 2022

Living in North Lawndale on Chicago’s West Side, a Section 8 voucher recipient looks to get out of the area.

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