CHA Plan for Transformation
The CHA Plan for Transformation is changing neighborhoods all over Chicago, especially the study areas in the Reconnecting Neighborhoods program. Read status updates from Metropolitan Planning Council here. Read more about the CHA Plan for Transformation »
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CHA Plan for Transformation July 2007 Update - Importance of transit to the viability of mixed-income communities
- CHA Plan for Transformation December 2006 Update
- Status of workforce development for residents
- CHA Plan for Transformation August 2006 Update
- Status of community building, services and resident engagement strategies in mixed-income communities
- CHA Plan for Transformation November 2005 Update
- Status of affordable homes development within mixed-income communities
- CHA Plan for Transformation July 2005 Update
- Resident services and self-sufficiency goals
- CHA Plan for Transformation December 2004 Progress report
- Factors for success around mixed-income communities: schools and youth programs, economic development and community space
- CHA Plan for Transformation July 2004 Progress report
- Development status of new mixed-income communities; CHA scattered sites and renovated family properties; and "destination communities" where significant numbers of public housing residents are relocating while their homes are being redeveloped or rehabbed
- CHA Plan for Transformation July 2003 Progress Report
- Status of relocation process and supportive services
- CHA Plan for Transformation April 2003 Progress Report
- Status of redevelopment, demolition and resident relocation and lease-compliance
- 11.2002
MPC Fact Sheet #4: Examining the Chicago Housing Authority's Redevelopment Strategy - Strengthening America’s neighborhoods while reaching our lowest-income families,” said the organizers of a national symposium of 1,000 housing professionals in Chicago this spring, is “mixed-income housing’s greatest challenge.” Nowhere is mixed-income theory moving into practice more ambitiously than in the Chicago Housing Authority Plan for Transformation. Read more »
- 02.2002
MPC Fact Sheet #3: Examining the Chicago Housing Authority's Relocation Efforts - The terrorist attack that shook our country on Sept. 11, 2001 continues to resonate on many levels. Neighbors look to each other for strength and reassurance, gathering around the television for news, or the kitchen table for some semblance of safety and normalcy. As the Chicago Housing Authority continues its dramatic transformation in the midst of our nation's new struggle, we learn anew the value of a stable home base. Our challange now is to help CHA residents achieve that stability. Read more »
- 06.2001
MPC Fact Sheet #2: Examining the Chicago Housing Authority's Proposed Service Connector Model - Beginning with this Fact Sheet, the Council will look more closely at how the Plan is measuring up to each of these five principles, beginning with the third. Arguably, none of the the problems the Transformation Plan seeks to solve can adequately be addressed – from redevelopment financing to tenant rights to community acceptance – until CHA residents have access to quality supportive services. Read more »
- 10.2000
MPC Fact Sheet #1: Chicago Housing Authority Transformation Plan Update - For too long, residents of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) have been concentrated in high-and mid-rise buildings plagued with crime and isolated from the job opportunities and services available to the rest of Chicago. After years of deterioration and neglect, the CHA faces capital needs in excess of $3 billion just to repair existing units. Read more »
