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Tag Archives: Plan for Transformation
CN Dec 8 2016
Ben Carson is about to become the guy who oversees public housing and doles out community development block grants to every urban center in America. What does that mean for Chicago? Y’know all the stories about CHA’s broken promises and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Carson, CHA, desegregation, Ethan Michaeli, HUD, Lee Bey, Plan for Transformation, privatization
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CN May 5 2016
A CHA voucher recipient lives in a high-rise with a lake view. The rent is about $3,000 a month. Another lives in Aqua Tower. It’s great fodder for investigative news teams. To make matters worse, the CHA admits that … Continue reading
CN December 11, 2014
There was a stark manifestation of the growing divide between haves and have-nots in Chicago recently when the CHA revealed the numbers of people who’d applied for its most-recent round of wait-list applications. “There were 282,000 or so households … Continue reading
CN Oct. 24, 2013
Take a look at this screen grab from Google Earth.. See those two big black blotches (the one on the top and the one at the bottom) right beside the Calumet River? That’s petcoke, or petroleum coke. It’s a nasty … Continue reading
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Tagged BP Whiting refinery, CHA, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, deposition, Ethan Michaeli, Koch brothers, Laura Foxgrover, Micael Hawthorne, Millennium Park, Park Grill, petcoke, Plan for Transformation, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, Section 8, senior housing, southeast side, tar sands, Tim Novak, We The People Media
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CN June 6, 2013
Our thanks to WBEZ’s Natalie Moore for leading today’s discussion about public housing and the neighborhoods that economic development always seem to pass by. Guests include WBEZ bloggers Britt Julious and Achy Obejas, and We The People Media’s Ethan Michaeli. … Continue reading
CN September 27, 2012
Here’s a succinct explanation of the CHA’s Plan for Transformation: “Mayor Daley was a very successful politician, and he was faced with a political problem. He had half the people in the city wanting to tear the buildings down because … Continue reading
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