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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.
See also
- Hills v. Gautreaux, a 1976 Supreme Court case
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.
External links
- Chicago Housing Authority official site
