Henry Horner Homes is a 26-acre site located on Chicago’s Near West Side. This site will be completely rebuilt under the CHA’s Plan for Transformation.

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Resident Leadership

Public housing residents are represented by a strong leadership headed by the development’s Local Advisory Council (LAC). This council is synonymous with a tenant association and is headed by an LAC president who is part of the Central Advisory Council, the governing body of the LAC.

Henry Horner Homes LAC President	Crystal Palmer
Mailing Address	1936 W. Washington, #105 Chicago, IL 60612
Phone	(312) 742-1282

History

Henry Horner Homes is named after former Illinois Governor Henry Horner, who presided over the state from 1933 to 1940. Governor Horner is credited with pioneering several programs to aid the economically disadvantaged. The CHA’s original Henry Horner development was completed in 1957. In 1961, this site was enlarged to 920 units with the addition of seven multi-story buildings known as the Henry Horner Homes extension. In the late 1980s, the Horner site became familiar to a national audience as the setting for the book, “There Are No Children Here,” a popular non-fiction account of two brothers living in Chicago ’s public housing.

Existing Conditions

Approximately 2,000 residents currently live in Henry Horner Homes. This property consists of rehabilitated mid-rise buildings and recently constructed town-homes.

Plan for Transformation: Mixed-Income Redevelopment

The renewal of Henry Horner Homes has taken place in two phases:

Phase I

In 2001, the CHA completed construction of Westhaven, a 200-unit town-home style development available to low-income residents. This community represents Phase I of the redevelopment of Henry Horner. Another 90 units have been rehabilitated within the Horner Annex. Meanwhile, an additional 263 scattered site units were also constructed and rehabilitated in the surrounding neighborhood.

Phase II

Horner Phase II redevelopment will be constructed in three stages and will consist of 764 new on-site units. Of this number, 271 units will be reserved for public housing; 132 reserved for affordable housing tenants; and 360 units reserved for market rate residents. About 465 of these units will be rental units while 299 units will be “for sale” units. Phase 2A, a low-rise rental building, closed in December of 2002. This phase includes 155 new rental units, 87 of which are public housing units, offered in three- and four-story buildings, with 31 and 37 units available to affordable and market-rate residents.

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