Chicago Housing Authority
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaChicago Housing Authority (CHA) 
Agency overview Formed 1937 Jurisdiction Chicago Headquarters 60 E. Van Buren Street.
Chicago, Illinois, United StatesAnnual budget $881 million (2012)[1] Agency executive Charles Woodyard (2011),
Chief Executive OfficerWebsite http://www.thecha.org/ The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) is a municipal corporation established by the State of Illinois in 1937 with jurisdiction for the administrative oversight of public housing within the City of Chicago. The agency's mission is guided by a Board of Commissioners 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. CHA owns over 21,000 apartments (9,200 units reserved for seniors and over 11,400 units in family and other housing types). It also oversees the administration of 37,000 Section 8 vouchers. The current CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority is Mr. Charles Woodyard. Woodyard is the former CEO of Charlotte Housing Authority.[2]Contents
History[edit]
The Chicago Housing Authority has built a number of public housing projects over the years. The first director of CHA was Elizabeth Wood, from 1937 until 1954. The Lathrop Homes were built in 1939. The Francis Cabrini and William Green Homes was started in 1942, ABLA is a complex of buildings started in 1943, Stateway Gardens was started in 1955, and Robert Taylor Homes was started in 1962. Between 1950 and 1969, the housing authority built 11 high rise projects for public housing, which isolated the extreme poor in "superblocks" that were not easily patrolled by police vehicles. Most of the households were headed by females, and the developments were almost entirely African American. Cabrini–Green, Henry Horner, Harold Ickes were just some of the developments. The Robert Taylor Homes, constructed in 1962, was the largest public housing project in the United States, claiming more than 4,000 units. CHA created the Chicago Housing Authority Police Department (CHAPD) which was formed in 1989 and was dissolved in 1999.Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority[edit]
In 1966, Dorothy Gautreaux and other CHA residents brought a suit against the CHA, in Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority. It was a long-running case that in 1996 resulted in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) taking over the CHA and the Gautreaux Project in which public housing families were relocated to the suburbs.Demographics[edit]
On average, a Chicago public housing development is made up of: 69% African-American, 27% Latino, and 4% White and Other.[3][clarification needed]Developments[edit]
Housing Project Location Constructed Status Cabrini-Green Near-North Side, North Side 1942-62 William Green Homes and Cabrini Extensions (demolished), Francis Cabrini Row-houses (renovated). Julia C. Lathrop Homes bordered by Bucktown and Roscoe Village, North-West Side 1937-38 awaiting re-development. Robert Taylor Homes Bronzeville, South Side 1961-62 demolished, Replaced with a Mixed-income housing developmentLegends South.[4] Wentworth Gardens Bronzeville/Fuller Park, South Side 1945 renovated. Bridgeport Homes Bridgeport, South-West Side 1959-60 renovated. Ida B. Wells Homes Bronzeville, South Side 1939-41 demolished, Replaced with Oakwood Shores.[5] Stateway Gardens Bronzeville, South Side 1955-58 demolished, replaced with Mixed-income housing developmentPark Boulevard. Trumbull Park Homes South Deering, Far-South Side 1938-39 renovated. Dearborn Homes Bronzeville, South Side 1949-50 renovated. Altgeld Gardens Homes borderline of Chicago and Riverdale, Illinois, Far-South Side 1945 renovated. Madden Park Homes Bronzeville, South Side 1970 demolished, Replaced with Oakwood Shores.[5] Prairie Courts South Commons, South Side 1951-52 demolished between 2000-2001. Racine Courts Washington Heights, South-West Side 1953 redeveloped. Harold Ickes Homes Bronzeville, South Side 1954-55 demolished. Lawndale Gardens Little Village, South-West Side 1960 renovated. Lowden Homes Princeton Park, South-West Side 1961-62 renovated. Washington Park Homes Bronzeville, South Side 1963-64 demolished. Henry Horner Homes West Town, West Side 1957-59 demolished. Clarence Darrow Homes Bronzeville, South Side 1961 demolished, Replaced with Oakwood Shores.[5] Lake Parc Place/Lake Michigan High-rises Bronzeville, South Side 1960-63 Lake Michigan High-rises (demolished), Lake Parc Place (renovated). Jane Addams Homes University Village, West Side 1938-39 demolished, replaced with townhouses and condominiums under the name Roosevelt Square. Rockwell Gardens East Garfield Park, West Side 1958-59 demolished, replaced with West End development. Robert Brooks Homes/Extensions University Village, West Side 1943 demolished. Loomis Courts University Village, West Side 1951 demolished. Harrison Courts East Garfield Park, West Side 1958 demolished. Grace Abbott Homes University Village, West Side 1955 demolished. LeClaire Courts Archer Heights,South-West Side 1958-59 demolished. Notable Residents[edit]
- R. Kelly (Ida B. Wells Homes)
- Mr. T (Robert Taylor Homes)
- Maurice Cheeks (Robert Taylor Homes)
- Curtis Mayfield (Cabrini-Green)
- Eric Monte (Cabrini-Green)
- Jerry Butler (Cabrini-Green)
- Kirby Puckett (Robert Taylor Homes)
- Deval Patrick (Robert Taylor Homes)
- Marvin Smith (Robert Taylor Homes)
Plan For Transformation/Plan Forward[edit]
In 2000, the CHA began its Plan For Transformation, which called for the demolition of all of its gallery high-rise buildings because they failed HUD's viability test and proposed a renovated housing portfolio totaling 25,000 units. In April 2013, CHA created Plan Forward, the next phase of redeveloping public housing in Chicago. The plan includes the rehabilitation of homes, increasing economic sales around CHA developments and providing educational, job training to residents with Section 8 vouchers.[9]See also[edit]
- Hills v. Gautreaux, a 1976 Supreme Court case
- Chicago Housing Authority Police Department
- Marshall Field Garden Apartments
- Blueprint for Disaster (2009), a book by D. Bradford Hunt
- "Understanding Chicago's High-Rise Public Housing Disaster", in Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, and Alternatives, edited by Charles Waldheim and Katerina Reudi Ray (University of Chicago Press, 2005).
- "How Did Public Housing Survive the 1950s?", Journal of Policy History, 17:2, Spring 2005, 193–216.
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