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Public Housing tracks how policy, design, maintenance, disinvestment, and redevelopment changed residential life at the scale of buildings, campuses, and neighborhoods.
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Updated 2026
Financing closed in August 2026 for two six-story buildings with 183 mixed-income homes, beginning a long-delayed return of housing to the cleared Garfield Ridge...
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Closed in 2013, the school at 2221 South Lawndale Avenue has carried community-reuse ambitions for a decade; the current disposition ties its future to...
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Once the shopping and organizing hub of Altgeld Gardens, the long-vacant Up Top Building is planned for restoration and expansion by By The Hand...
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Built in 1938 along the North Branch of the Chicago River, the Julia C. Lathrop Homes remain one of Chicago's most revealing public-housing landscapes....
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Arsenal Courts captures the emergency logic of wartime housing and the speed with which entire planned residential landscapes can disappear once that emergency passes....
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Jericho Circle turns Aurora housing history into a clearance landscape, where public policy, neglect, demolition, and uncertain redevelopment all sit on the same ground....
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Des Plaines Gardens is a Joliet housing-demolition case where displacement and redevelopment branding mattered as much as the buildings themselves. The site helps show...
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Fairview Homes makes Joliet's public-housing transformation readable as a phased process of resident movement, demolition, rebuilding, and uneven promises. It is as much a...
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Stateway Gardens bound public housing history to transit access, segregation, and the remaking of central South Side land, first as a major CHA project...
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The Ida B. Wells Homes tie early public housing design, racial segregation, neighborhood life, and later mixed-income redevelopment into one Bronzeville site where residential...
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The Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects linked early Black public housing, Brush Park clearance, cultural memory, and present redevelopment plans across a site whose historical weight...
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Perkins Homes now sits inside the PSO transformation, where residential policy, demolition, return, and redevelopment pressure are all being worked out on one of...
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