Museum staffers, many of whom are have lived in public housing, share their experiences, inspiring visitors to open up about ...

This review is part of a broader national push by the Trump administration's HUD to tighten oversight on public housing ...

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The Chicago Housing Authority board approved a land sale on Tuesday to a private developer to construct 23 town homes, at least four of which will be considered affordable, despite opposition from ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. The need for more affordable housing units in Chicago is ...

The three-story brick building where the National Public Housing Museum is opening isn’t only the last of the 32 buildings that once made up the Jane Addams Homes, Chicago’s first public housing ...

The city has torn down all of its high rises and says it's close to completing its plans to transform public housing. Chicago leaders want to use... In Chicago, Public Housing Experiment Enters New ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Inspector General is conducting an audit of the Chicago ...

What does it take to ease the affordability gap in the Windy City? Two public housing experts go into detail. Rishab Mehan & Jennifer Hoyle share insights about the Chicago Housing Authority’s ...

Public housing isn’t just a means to an end; it’s where hope begins, and community takes root. I know this not just in theory, but also through my work at La Casa Norte, where I have the honor of ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Set inside a once-dilapidated 1938 building on Chicago’s near West Side, a one-of-a-kind museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America. A former federal housing ...

In the spring of 2017, Debra Parker — a longtime Chicago public housing tenant activist from the South Side — and her boyfriend Charles Bell met at a Dunkin Donuts on 79th Street and Cicero Avenue for ...