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Beyond the Rubble

In 2000, the Chicago Housing Authority embarked on the largest public housing makeover in the country. The Better Government Association and the Chicago Sun-Times continue their examination of the effects of the city’s “Plan for Transformation.’’

Investigation

CHA Paid Alleged Gang Leader Thousands To House Tenants

Johnny Herndon was paid $34,000 a year to provide apartments to Section 8 public housing residents.
September 17, 2016
Investigation

Chicago Housing Authority Places Families In Crime-Plagued Neighborhoods

The high-rise projects were torn down years ago to place families in safer settings. Yet public housing residents today face violent crime throughout the city.
September 10, 2016
Investigation

Daley's CHA Plan Jolted Region

Every Chicago neighborhood and almost every suburb felt the impact of public housing transformation.
June 25, 2016
Investigation

CHA's Transformation Reshaped A City

In some neighborhoods, new clusters of subsidized housing. In others, poverty is ‘a lot more invisible now.’
June 25, 2016
Investigation

Public Housing Families Flee to Suburbs

The number of subsidized households in Chicago's suburbs jumped almost 30 percent since 2000.
June 25, 2016
Follow-Up

CHA’s Section 8 Contractors May Get Booted

In wake of Sun-Times/BGA stories on public housing tenants living in apartments with code violations, CHA may stop outsourcing Section 8 management.
June 12, 2016
Investigation

The CHA’s Waiting Game

Thousands spent years waiting in line for CHA housing aid, while others spent only a few days or weeks.
May 22, 2016
Investigation

CHA Tenants Shiver, City Sues Landlords

City Hall filed more than 200 lawsuits this year against landlords for inadequate heat. Dozens of those cases involve buildings subsidized through the Chicago Housing Authority.
April 25, 2016
Investigation

Cashing In On The CHA

Sun-Times/BGA report finds that, since the CHA started razing high-rises, providing housing for the poor has become a growth industry for private landlords.
April 23, 2016
Investigation

Comfortable Apartment, But ‘Neighborhood Is Trouble’

Living in North Lawndale on Chicago’s West Side, a Section 8 voucher recipient looks to get out of the area.
April 23, 2016