Chicago Housing Authority
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The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) is a public housing authority focusing on public housing in the city of Chicago, founded in 1937.
It has built a number of public housing projects over the years. Cabrini-Green was started in 1942, ABLA is a complex of buildings started in 1943, Stateway Gardens was started in 1955, and Robert Taylor Homes was started in 1962.
In 1966, Dorothy Gautreaux and other CHA residents brought a suit against the CHA, in Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority. It was a long-running case that in 1996 resulted in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) taking over the CHA. In 2000, the CHA began its Plan For Transformation, which called for the demolition of many of its high-rise projects.
Between 1950 and 1969, it built 11 high rise buildings for public housing, which isolated the extreme poor in "superblocks" that were not easily patrolled by police vehicles. Most the households were headed by females, and the developments were almost entirely African American. Cabrini Green, Henry Horner, Harold Ickes were just some of the developments. Robert Taylor Homes, constructed in 1962, was the largest public housing project in the United States, claiming more than 4,000 units.
[edit] See also
- Hills v. Gautreaux, a 1976 Supreme Court case
- Chicago Housing Authority Police Department
[edit] References
- Chicago Housing Authority. Encyclopedia of Chicago.
- Gautreaux. Business and Professional People for the Public Interest.
- Latest Decision on Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority. National Housing Law Project.
[edit] External links
- Chicago Housing Authority official site
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