Three undergraduate students at the University of Chicago won a new housing challenge for proposing a citywide vacancy tax.

The program aimed at turning vacant city land into housing for working middle-class families recently expanded to include ...

Elizabeth Poole and her new team will begin their work by focusing on lead-based paint hazards as they build out the new ...

CHA is selling land to a private developer to construct 23 townhomes, at least four of which will be considered affordable, ...

The collaboration began in 2002, when the Chicago Housing Authority and the housing authorities of Lake and Cook Counties created a collaboration called the Regional Housing Initiative (RHI).

Had the developers not been given that option, the ordinance would have produced more than 1,200 affordable units, according to the Chicago Housing Initiative advocacy group. A group of local ...

Chicago wants to chart a corrective path by setting forth several housing initiatives including aggressively pushing for more affordable homes in high-income, well-resourced areas, which housing ...

A new housing development Three adaptive reuse proposals were selected for the LaSalle Reimagined Initiative, Chicago's ambitious plan to repurpose a portion of LaSalle Street's 5 million square ...

Don Washington, executive director of the Chicago Housing Initiative, says the system is working as intended, which means it is not helping the greatest number of people. "What happened with the ...

But cities face an uphill battle passing new funding measures to support brand-new housing initiatives, especially when voters are invested in keeping real estate taxes flat. In Chicago ...

CHICAGO, Oct. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire ... shared savings it earns back into the community through initiatives like the Flexible Housing Program. CountyCare is also investing its own dollars ...

CHICAGO, Oct. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire ... the shared savings it earns back into the community through initiatives like the Flexible Housing Program. CountyCare is also investing its own dollars ...