The three-story brick building where the National Public Housing Museum is opening isn’t only the last of the 32 buildings that once made up the Jane Addams Homes, Chicago’s first public housing ...

During the Great Depression, the United States government embarked on an ambitious era of public housing, creating almost 1.5 million units nationwide under the Housing Act of 1937. Located on Chicago ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On a gray Thursday on Chicago’s Near West Side, Rev. Marshall Hatch Sr. stepped through time. Here were his five sisters, proudly donning caps and gowns in ...

The U.S. has a housing crisis — one only growing more serious with each day. In the District of Columbia, a recent report by the Urban Institute found that 12% of the city’s population of more than 82 ...

CHICAGO, Nov. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Public Housing Museum was nominated for USA Today's 10BEST Readers' Choice Awards for Best New Museum, recognizing the institution's long-awaited ...

“We cannot allow proposed cuts to HUD and Section 8 to devastate our communities. These aren’t abstract budget items—they represent the homes and futures of real people we work with every day.” ...

In Minneapolis, every landlord must be licensed and every rental home examined by a city inspector to ensure it meets basic standards of decency. Unless it’s public housing. Two women, tenants of the ...

City Council members and Mayor John Whitmire celebrate a $50 million grant for Houston Housing Authority At the Cuney Homes public housing complex in Houston's Third Ward on Friday, city officials ...