CHA News

For the fourth year, the CHA partnered with the Daisie Foundation, a non-profit that specializes in random acts of kindness, for a special Mother’s Day Makeover Celebration honoring 100 CHA residents at Hyatt Place Chicago.

CHA hosted the “Cabrini Now” kickoff meeting on May 8 at Ogden-Jenner Elementary School. Cabrini Now is a community-driven planning and design effort to improve the Cabrini neighborhood through new housing and economic development on CHA properties.

CHA celebrated the ceremonial “switching on” of the Bronzeville Community Microgrid this month at Dearborn Homes – one of the nation’s first neighborhood scale community microgrids – and an important milestone in CHA’s sustainability efforts.

CHA welcomed its 2024 class of summer interns this month. Seventeen students are participating in the program – nearly all of them CHA residents. 

June is National Homeownership Month. To celebrate, the CHA HOME Team hosted the 2nd Annual Homeownership Symposium, on Saturday, June 8 at the UIC Student Center. With over 200 attendees, the event was a vibrant and informative gathering focused on "all things Homeownership." 

CHA joined partners from Chicago House, the City of Chicago, State of Illinois and the Pritzker Family Foundation this month to celebrate the ribbon-cutting at Englewood Family Homes, the first permanent supportive housing development for families living with HIV or AIDS on the South Side.

CHA and its partner Jonathan Rose Companies proudly celebrated the $86 million renovation of the 272-unit Barbara Jean Wright Court Apartments this month with a ribbon-cutting at the property on the Near West Side.

Earlier this year, CHA employees collected a variety of puzzles and puzzle books to donate to CHA seniors. One of the donated puzzles was the clear 100-piece “Impossible Puzzle,” which included multiple fake corner and edge pieces scattered throughout the puzzle. 

This August, Chicago will host the 2024 Democratic National Convention at McCormick Place and the United Center. CHA has several buildings near the United Center that will be impacted by traffic and security measures.

The Chicago Housing Authority Board of Commissioners today approved an increase from 27 to 61 total Project Based Vouchers (PBVs) for the Humboldt Village housing development. Humboldt Village is an adaptive reuse of a former Chicago Public School Building (DeDuprey/Von Humboldt) located at 1417 N. Talman in the West Town community area.