What does Section 3 mean when doing business with CHA? What is a Section 3 business? This resource is also available as a downloadable PDF.
You can find more information online. For assistance please call 773-342-WORC (9672).
Section 3 (S3) businesses are:
- 51% owned by a low-income person(s)
- 51% owned by CHA resident(s) or Housing Choice Voucher program participant(s)
- A business where 75% of the labor hours are performed by low-income persons
CHA provides various opportunities for Section 3 businesses to work with CHA:
- Become part of a pre-qualified contractor pool
- Assigned capital maintenance work on a rotational basis
- CHA issues RFPs for the pre-qualified pool every 2-4 years.
- Currently closed to S3 businesses not already in the existing pool
- Respond to CHA solicitations
- All S3 businesses can apply to solicitations
- Some solicitations are directed to S3 businesses (e.g., vacant lot landscaping, snow removal)
- Apply to work as a sub-contractor for CHA vendors
- CHA construction vendors are required to subcontract 10% of the contract value to S3 businesses
- Vendors for professional services are required to subcontract 3% of the contract value to S3 businesses
- Respond to CHA’s Professional Property Management (PPM) company’s solicitations
- PPMs are required to solicit to S3 businesses for unit turn work
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Charles A. Hayes
Family Investment Center ("The FIC")
4859 S Wabash
Chicago, IL 60615
773.342.WORC (9672)