The CHA Owns More Than 130 Acres Of Vacant Land And Buildings — Enough To Fill 25 City Blocks – Block Club Chicago

The land was supposed to be used for new homes. Instead, it highlights decades of development delays under four mayors and eight CHA CEOs, with crippling consequences for some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Chicago is struggling with an acute shortage of affordable housing, and more than 200,000 people are on the CHA’s waiting lists for assistance.  
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Riverbender
2 years ago

Fill with immigrant tents perhaps?

debtsor
2 years ago

LOL Love the picture with the honey locust seed pods littering the lot. Did you know that for many years, and probably still now, Chicago encouraged residents to plant honey locust trees because they are considered a drought tolerant tree that can handle the ‘climate change’ better? They said that climate change would lead to drier summers and warmer weather, so we should plant these trees. Then during the 2010s and into the early 2020’s we had some of the wettest season ever, and now these ‘drought resistant’ trees crap their seed pods everywhere for squirrels to bury the seeds… Read more »

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