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

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

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

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

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

In Illinois, cuts to AmeriCorps will leave some programs for the summer shuttered or scrambling for volunteers.

The City Council held a hearing on a package of social housing bills that prioritizes affordable housing built and owned by ...

Homes like D’Agostino’s, typically called coach houses, carriage houses or “granny flats,” are illegal to build in most of ...

Other than confirming that Levav was suspended from the housing program for a year and reinstated in February, the Chicago Housing Authority didn’t comment. It referred questions about the ...

There’s levity, some anxiety and maybe a bit of wistfulness—but more than anything, a buzz of excitement for all that lies ...

Johnson described the program as another tool to spur more affordable housing, likening it to the 1990s Chicago Bulls, where Michael Jordan was the star but others played their roles.