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ABLA Homes (Jane Addams Homes, Robert Brooks Homes, Loomis Courts, and Grace Abbott Homes) was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing development that comprised four separate public housing projects on the Near-West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The name "ABLA" was an acronym for the names of the four different housing developments that ...
Wrapports expanded in 2012, buying the Chicago Reader and its associated properties. No purchase price was disclosed, though published reports estimated it at $3 million. The Reader, an award-winning alternative weekly newspaper, had been owned by Creative Loafing of Atlanta, which went bankrupt in 2009. [3]
The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) is a municipal corporation that oversees public housing within the city of Chicago. The agency's Board of Commissioners is appointed by the city's mayor, and has a budget independent from that of the city of Chicago. CHA is the largest rental landlord in Chicago, with more than 50,000 households.
Observers estimate the city needs more than 100,000 new affordable units to make up for the shortage. There are efforts underway to close that gap, but it could take years to accomplish.
[2] [3] [4] It was the fourth public housing project constructed in Chicago before World War II and was much larger than the others, with 1,662 units. [2] It had more than 860 apartments and almost 800 row houses and garden apartments, [1] and included a city park, Madden Park. Described as "handsome [and] well planned", the project was ...
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
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Current and former public housing projects in Chicago, Illinois. Pages in category "Public housing in Chicago" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.