Public Housing Siting and Demolition (CHA Plan for Transformation)

CTL-E-0917 · Policy · 1939-2011

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Federal/CHA policy concentrated public housing in/adjacent to Bronzeville, then demolished it under HOPE VI/Plan for Transformation (1998-2011).

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BVM-005; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BVM-005:policy-public-housing; source research type(s): policy.

Sources

Encyclopedia of Chicago; Wikipedia

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Door of the historic Chicago Defender Building, ChicagoPhoto: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The 35th Street Bronzeville CTA station, ChicagoPhoto: vxla (Eric Pancer), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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