The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Chicago office will now oversee 65 public housing authorities in Wisconsin because of staffing shortages in the agency’s Milwaukee office. This ...

Our op-ed contributors wrote thoughtfully this year on how Chicago can develop the amount of housing it needs.

A $24 million lead paint lawsuit payout. Dissatisfied residents. Staff members who have seen the vast majority of executive leaders turn over in the last 10 months. The Trump administration’s ...

The Chicago Housing Authority has a brand new Healthy Homes Division. The team will help address environmental issues like lead, mold and air quality for more than 30,000 public housing residents.

The Chicago Housing Authority is under the microscope, as federal watchdogs dig into how the agency vets tenants for immigration status and criminal backgrounds, adding another layer of scrutiny to ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Set inside a once-dilapidated 1938 building on Chicago’s near West Side, a one-of-a-kind museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America. A former federal housing ...

Vacant lots in Chicago. The city is estimated to own more than 7,000 of them, mostly in communities with declining populations. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/TNS) So many affordable-housing ...

In the spring of 2017, Debra Parker — a longtime Chicago public housing tenant activist from the South Side — and her boyfriend Charles Bell met at a Dunkin Donuts on 79th Street and Cicero Avenue for ...

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CHICAGO (AP) — A policy forcing residents in Chicago's public housing developments to submit to annual drug tests violates privacy and other constitutional rights, according to a class-action lawsuit ...