Three undergraduate students at the University of Chicago won a new housing challenge for proposing a citywide vacancy tax.

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

Elizabeth Poole and her new team will begin their work by focusing on lead-based paint hazards as they build out the new ...

CHA is selling land to a private developer to construct 23 townhomes, at least four of which will be considered affordable, ...

West Humboldt Park in Chicago begins a new mixed-use development focused on affordable housing and sustainability.

Chicago faces a shortfall of nearly 120,000 affordable housing units amid rising costs and threats to federal housing grants. Mayor Brandon Johnson's new Green Social Housing initiative aims to ...

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

In the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes, a small museum fights to preserve not just artifacts but dignity and ...

Members of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration say they are making progress with efforts to streamline government processes. Critics of the administration don't agree. The mayor marked one ...

Chicago estimated 18,836 people experienced ... The new proposals would expand those support roles, create affordable housing initiatives on vacant city lots and district property and offer ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson hopes to convince skeptical City Council members to advance a housing initiative that would ... way to build affordable housing,” Chicago Housing Commissioner Lissette ...