Spring 2023 Meeting Recap
4.6.23
CLPHA Spring Meeting Stimulates Racial Equity & Inclusion Conversations, Draws Members of Congress to Discuss Their Visions for Public and Affordable Housing, and Celebrates Members’ Innovations and Accomplishments
Housing IS
Pew Issue Brief Outlines Broadband Challenges and Opportunities in Affordable Rental Housing
4.6.23
Chicago Fire Football Club, Chicago Housing Authority Sign Lease on New near West Side Training Facility
4.4.23
From the Chicago Fire's press release:
Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot, the Chicago Fire Football Club, Alderman Jason Ervin (28th Ward), and the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) today announced the signing of a ground lease for a new training facility for Chicago’s Major League Soccer (MLS) team in the Roosevelt Square neighborhood on the Near West Side.
James Harden's Foundation Partners with Houston Housing Authority to Revitalize and Reopen Local Basketball Court
4.4.23
From Black Enterprise:
Foster Youth to Independence (FYI) Initiative Notice Issued
HUD Announces Guide to New Broadband Funding for HUD-Assisted Communities
3.27.23
Protect, Expand, Provide: CLPHA's 2023 Policy Priorities
3.27.23
Protecting, expanding. and providing affordable housing has never been so important.
Chicago Housing Authority Receives 75 New Vouchers to Support Young Adults Transitioning out of Foster Care
3.7.23
From the Chicago Housing Authority's press release:
The Chicago Housing Authority this week received $1.1 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for 75 new vouchers that will provide housing assistance to young adults who are transitioning out of foster care and are experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness.
STEM Opportunity: Free Drone Kits Available to HUD-Assisted Communities
3.7.23
HUD-assisted communities interested in educating youth on drones can request free drone kits to provide high school-age youth with a STEM opportunity.
Redlining in paint: In new exhibit, artist shows effects of discrimination on her Yonkers neighborhood
3.7.23
From LoHud.com:
Last summer, Shanequa Benitez borrowed her mom’s electric bike and pedaled up and down Yonkers’ notorious hills. Using her grandfather’s Vivitar 35-millimeter camera, the 34-year-old Yonkers native photographed friends on sweltering afternoons in and around Cromwell Towers, the public housing where she grew up in the Locust Hill neighborhood.