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Henry Horner Mothers Guild, 1991

Above is a video press release produced by the Chicago Video Project for the Henry Horners Mothers Guild in April 1991. The press release coincided with a press conference announcing the Mothers Guild’s 1991 lawsuit against the Chicago Housing Authority.

Bring the stores back

http://tellingourstory.org/flash/DeveraEmma.flv

Devera Beverly, LAC President, ABLA Homes, and Emma Arnold, a resident of ABLA Homes, explain that a community needs more than just housing.

The social cost of change

http://tellingourstory.org/flash/DianahMaydessie.flv

Dinah Canser and Maydessie Shaw — daughter and mother — discuss how eviction and relocation have cost Ms. Shaw her social connections.

Chicago Tribune video on the Plan for Transformation

On May 5, 2009, the Chicago Tribune produced for its website a video entitled CHA History Stateway Plan for transformation. Check it out at the Tribune’s website or embedded below.

Lathrop Homes residents fight demolition

Current and former residents of the Julia C. Lathrop Homes have started organizing to resist the planned demolition of their homes. According to a Chicago Tribune article,

in 2006, the Chicago Housing Authority announced that it would demolish Lathrop Homes and replace it with 1,200 condominiums and town homes. A third of the homes were to be affordable while the rest would sell at market rate.

While that hasn’t happened — yet — supporters of the last public housing complex on the city’s North Side say the complex, or at least some of the original buildings, should be preserved. And they’ve offered an alternative plan.

More than 550 people have joined a Facebook group called the Lathrop Homes Alumni of Chicago, where members can share photos and stories from their time spent at Lathrop. Many of the pictures uploaded to the site date back to the 1950s. Lathrop Homes was one of Chicago’s first public housing developments, completed in 1938.

Residents' Journal

Residents’ Journal is a publication of We the People Media

The CHA Plan Is Dead says Ethan Michaeli in the Spring 2009 issue of Residents’ Journal. Residents’ Journal is the award winning publication of We the People Media, a non-profit organization dedicated to making sure that Chicago public housing residents’ voices are heard.

Janice Patton gave up on the Plan for Transformation a long time ago. Patton moved out of Robert Taylor Homes in 2000, the same year Mayor Richard M. Daley announced the Plan. The mayor promised that residents who moved out temporarily could return shortly, after the high-rises were demolished and replaced with new, ‘mixed-income’ communities. Patton didn’t go too far from Robert Taylor, settling in the neighborhood just south of where the development stood. Like most of those who moved out, she used a Section 8 certificate – now known as Housing Choice Voucher – to subsidize her rent in a relatively well-managed, new construction development. Unlike many of her former neighbors, Patton never expected to come back.

“I left it and kept on going,” she explained. “I thought, ‘Let me get into a good building so I don’t have to move from place to place.’”

Continue reading at Residents’ Journal…

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