Housing Choice
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Housing and Opportunity: Impacts of Chicago’s Public Housing Demolition
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Chicago’s history of low-income housing policy is complex. The Chicago Housing Authority used to manage 17 large housing projects for low-income residents, but during the 1990s, due to high crime, poverty, drug use, and corruption and mismanagement in the projects, plans were made to demolish them. By 2011, all of…
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Who Can Afford Affordable Housing?
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The Low Income Housing Tax Credit, along with the Housing Choice Voucher program, haven’t relieved the housing cost burden.