Summary
The Chicago Housing Authority was founded in 1937 in Chicago to provide homes for poor and low-income residents. One the city's most famous, Cabrini-Green on the Near North Side, began as the Frances Cabrini Homes in 1942 with less than 600 low-rise units. By 1962, with additions and extensions to the development, Cabrini-Green housed more than 3,600 families. That same year, the CHA opened the Robert Taylor Homes on the South Side, a poorly maintained, mammoth hi-rise that became infamous for violent crime and urban blight. In 1996, citing mismanagement and poor performance, the federal government temporarily took over the CHA. In 2000, the CHA began demolishing many of its hi-rises as part of its $1.6 b...
The Chicago Housing Authority was founded in 1937 in Chicago to provide homes for poor and low-income residents. One the city's most famous, Cabrini-Green on the Near North Side, began as the Frances Cabrini Homes in 1942 with less than 600 low-rise units. By 1962, with additions and extensions to the development, Cabrini-Green housed more than 3,600 families. That same year, the CHA opened the Robert Taylor Homes on the South Side, a poorly maintained, mammoth hi-rise that became infamous for violent crime and urban blight. In 1996, citing mismanagement and poor performance, the federal government temporarily took over the CHA. In 2000, the CHA began demolishing many of its hi-rises as part of its $1.6 billion "Plan for Transformation."
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Reversing disinvestment in vital neighborhoods
We believe your July 6 articles "Obama adviser shapes city housing policy" and "Public housing limbo" paint an inaccurate and unbalanced picture of the Scattered Site Housing Program and the Chicago Housing Authority Plan for Transformation. The Habitat...Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Family, Personal Income, Interior Policy, Wicker Park
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Meeting challenges
The Tribune's recent story "Public housing limbo" gave the incorrect impression that the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation is failing when quite the opposite is true. Remember that less than a decade ago, the headlines of the Tribune and...Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy, Richard M. Daley
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Emphasis on teamwork helps land perfect spot
Special to the Chicago TribuneWhen Martin Nesbitt showed up for his first day of work as an analyst at General Motors Acceptance Corp. in 1985, he was surprised to find himself temporarily sharing an office with the company's treasurer. "GMAC's offices were being remodeled," Nesbitt...Tags: Basketball, Colleges and Universities, Chicago Real Estate, Interior Policy, Academic Progress
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Public housing museum plan moving ahead
Chicago Tribune criticArchitects are optimists by nature, as Chicago architect Peter Landon demonstrated last week as he took me on a flashlight-guided tour of an abandoned, derelict Chicago Housing Authority building near the fashionable Taylor Street restaurant strip....Tags: Interior Policy, Building Material, Lower East Side, Jane Addams, Housing and Urban Planning
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Neighborhood progress
As someone who has represented communities dominated by Chicago Housing Authority housing for nearly two decades, I am puzzled by the Tribune article of July 6 that characterizes the Plan for Transformation as "stalled" and "lagging" and casts doubt on...Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy, Grand Boulevard
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Obama has long record of backing faith-based charities
Chicago Tribune reportersAs a state senator from Chicago's South Side, Barack Obama once arranged for a $200,000 state grant to jump-start an urban venture capital fund for a non-profit group run by Rev. Jesse Jackson. The grant was the very sort of faith-based initiative now at...Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Society, Justice System, Interior Policy
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Chicago sports program lends a hand on and off the court
Chicago Tribune reporterAaron "Ace" Jackson quickly dribbled across the court, eluded defenders and drained a buzzer-beater from the three-point stripe. The Crane Tech High School freshman joined fist-pumping teammates who had been down by 20 and relished a chance at redemption...Tags: Larry Johnson, Basketball, United Center, Justice System, Interior Policy
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Corrections and clarifications, Jul. 10, 2008
•A Tempo story on Wednesday about 50 favorite magazines included an item about Vanity Fair that incorrectly overstated the degree of actress Miley Cyrus' state of undress in a controversial photo shoot this year. She did not "bare all." The story...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Clarendon Hills, Miley Cyrus
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