2024-12-11T17:03:20-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150290672/chicago-announces-largest-investment-in-affordable-housing-in-city-s-history Nathaniel Bahadursingh 2021-12-09T14:21:00-05:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6c/6cacf9b6d1c56f6130efb804767ab1f3.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/4611/chicago" target="_blank">Chicago</a> Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Chicago Department of Housing (DOH) Commissioner Marisa Novara announced on December 6th more than $1 billion in <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/110562/affordable-housing" target="_blank">affordable housing</a> through the Chicago Recovery Plan, as part of Lightfoot&rsquo;s 2022 budget. This is the largest investment in affordable housing in Chicago&rsquo;s history.&nbsp;</p> <p>Aiming to create and preserve 2,428 affordable housing units spread across 24 developments, the DOH is more than doubling the 11 developments awarded and 1,083 units built over the $398 million granted over the 2019 Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) round.&nbsp;</p> <p>The 24 LIHTC developments were selected through a <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/605203/racial-equity" target="_blank">racial equity</a> lens. As detailed in the City of Chicago&rsquo;s press release, the DOH conducted the country&rsquo;s first Racial Equity Impact Assessment of the LIHTC program through a process that examines data by race, centering on the experiences of impacted populations. As a result, the city has ensured that <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1621118/bipoc" target="_blank">BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color)</a> developers will benefit ...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/38747826/chicago-public-housing-after-cabrini-green Places Journal 2012-02-20T13:08:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/kp/kpvptyeghskwwe9j.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The saga of Cabrini-Green compels us to engage some hard and fundamental questions. It is not enough to ask: who benefits from public housing redevelopment? We must also ask: how we measure such benefits and who gets to do that measuring?</p></em><br /><br /><p> When the last of the Cabrini-Green towers was demolished by the Chicago Housing Authority a year ago, where did the residents go? Urban historian Lawrence Vale looks at the politics and policies of subsidized housing in the city and interviews the developer of the mixed-income "village" that replaced the old public housing projects (and excluded many of their residents).</p> <p> In a <a href="http://places.designobserver.com/feature/chicago-public-housing-photographs/32788/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">related feature</a>, sociologist David Schalliol documents this transition in a slideshow featuring photographs of CHA projects and sites.</p>