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.
Mick Dumke
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Daley’s CHA Plan Jolted Region
Every Chicago neighborhood and almost every suburb felt the impact of public housing transformation.
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CHA’s Transformation Reshaped A City
In some neighborhoods, new clusters of subsidized housing. In others, poverty is ‘a lot more invisible now.’
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Public Housing Families Flee to Suburbs
The number of subsidized households in Chicago’s suburbs jumped almost 30 percent since 2000.
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CHA’s Section 8 Contractors May Get Booted
In wake of Sun-Times/BGA stories on public housing tenants living in apartments with code violations, CHA may stop outsourcing Section 8 management.
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The CHA’s Waiting Game
Thousands spent years waiting in line for CHA housing aid, while others spent only a few days or weeks.
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Cashing In On The CHA
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.
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Comfortable Apartment, But ‘Neighborhood Is Trouble’
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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Taxpayers First Pay To Build, Then Lease Luxury Homes
Taxpayers foot the bill to lease condos and townhomes initially built with tax-increment financing dollars.
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Chicago’s Public Housing Divide
While thousands are stuck on waiting lists for public housing assistance, the CHA pays for hundreds to live at pricey addresses.