Housing
Rogers Park activist Mary Jane Haggerty is being remembered by friends as a tireless advocate for the downtrodden. She died last week after a long bout with cancer.
7 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
Chicago residents are being hit hard by the recession, according to a recent study, and city charities are struggling to keep up with the demand for food, energy assistance and emergency housing.
16 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
Chicago public housing residents are mourning the death of Beauty Turner, a longtime activist who fought on behalf of tenants. She died yesterday after suffering a brain aneurysm earlier this week.
19 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
Twenty-two public housing residents graduated from a program that helped them raise their incomes and education, officials say. More residents are expected to take advantage of the program.
19 days ago | By Megan Cottrell
Early next year, half of the residents at LeClaire Courts will have to leave their homes. Leaders say they shouldn't have to go without knowing what will be there if they choose to return.
1 month ago | By Megan Cottrell
Bronzeville residents are trying to improve access to their community, hoping it will spur development and help residents gain better access to rest of the city.
1 month ago | By Megan Cottrell
CHA will start requiring all public housing residents to get a job come January. They'll get more hlep finding day care for their children as they head off to work.
1 month ago | By Megan Cottrell
Voters considered several referendums on Election Day, including proposals for affordable housing and requiring contractors under certain circumstances to pay "living wages" to workers.
2 months ago | By Peter Sachs
Eighty-seven percent of Bronzeville voters casts votes urging the mayor and the 2016 Olympic Committee to set aside 26 percent of the 1,800 vacant lots in the neighborhood for middle-income homeownership.
2 months ago | By Megan Cottrell
Bronzeville residents, aldermen at odds over proposed a referendum that would set aside city-owned vacant lots for middle income homes.
2 months ago | By Megan Cottrell
A City Council committee unanimously passed the code after environmental organizations and builders joined to support it. It is expected to cut Chicago's greenhouse gas emissions.
2 months ago | By Jennifer Slosar
A referedum on the Election Day ballot seeks to solve affordable housing problems by using a portion of property taxes to fix blight.
2 months ago | By Peter Sachs
Residents at Lathrop Homes public housing are concerned about a possible plan to replace their community with a mixed-income housing development.
2 months ago | By Megan Cottrell
North Side public housing complex residents protested against CHA policies that have led to 600 vacant units there during a time when many people are homeless.
2 months ago | By Megan Cottrell
The Chicago Housing Authority will require all public housing tenants to work beginning in 2009. But some say that a lack of training and transit options are an impediment to the plan.
2 months ago | By Megan Cottrell
