The program aimed at turning vacant city land into housing for working middle-class families recently expanded to include ...

HUD releases 60,000 new Section 8 vouchers in June 2025. Learn eligibility criteria, application steps, and key deadlines.

Renaissance Social Services is providing 30 apartments on Division Street for unhoused Chicagoans. The apartments are meant ...

National Museum of Public Housing leaders hope visitors see there’s more to life in public housing than what's on the news.

Chicago’s push to bring ... delivered the kind of small-scale housing boom city leaders once envisioned. Four years after the city launched its pilot ADU program, only 373 units have been ...

Proponents say an expansion would combat ... She told the Sun-Times that the ADU program could help address the affordable housing crisis. In Chicago, there’s a 120,000-unit shortage of ...

A plurality of 41% also endorse the expansion of a pilot program that ... Affordable housing is generally defined as costing less than 30% of one’s income. In Chicago, where the average rent ...

Only 21% is zoned for multi-family housing. That leaves ample room for expansion ... on new construction. Take Chicago's "City Lots for Working Families'' program. It’s designed to provide ...

The National Public Housing Museum in Chicago is also a workforce program, recording studio and contains actual affordable housing units on site. Chicago Tonight: Black Voices is available to ...

Chicago alderpersons ... from affordable housing advocates about what it could mean for the future of housing in Chicago. The Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks program connects ...

CHICAGO — As the city prepares ... In recent years, Kaegi launched a program to incentivize the construction of new affordable housing through the use of tax credits. He said the Affordable ...

HUD expands Section 8 in June 2025. Find out who qualifies, how to apply, and which areas are opening new housing voucher ...