CHA News

Every year, CHA offers paid summer opportunities for residents ages 13-24 to provide early exposure to career and education pathways and opportunities that stem potential summer learning loss. 

CHA was proud to join our partners in the Humboldt Park community earlier this week to celebrate the opening of Nancy Franco Maldonado Paseo Boricua Arts Building. This distinctive building complements Paseo Boricua’s business and cultural district, which is the heart of Chicago’s Puerto Rican community.

On August 1, U.S. District Judge Marvin Aspen approved a jointly-proposed Amendment to the 2019 Settlement Agreement between the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) and Impact for Equity (IFE) in the landmark 1966 Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority federal lawsuit.

Yesterday U.S. District Judge Marvin Aspen approved a jointly-proposed Amendment to the 2019 Settlement Agreement between the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) and Impact for Equity (IFE) in the landmark 1966 Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority federal lawsuit.

This month, 73 CHA residents graduated from LevelUp, the agency’s wealth-building program that helps residents achieve their goals, whether it be improving credit, going back to school or becoming homeowners.

CHA hosted more than 600 housing professionals from across the country at the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) Summer Symposium in Chicago earlier this month.

CHA joined Hispanic Housing Development Corporation and the City of Chicago Wednesday for a groundbreaking of 1237 California, a new, 40 unit, six story Humboldt Park property that will include 18 Project Based Vouchers.

Davora Buchanan was shy while growing up in Trumbull Park Homes. She kept to herself and read. Then she attended CHA’s Learn and Earn program, where teenage students explore career fields like entrepreneurship, arts and technology while earning a paycheck.