What does it take to ease the affordability gap in the Windy City? Two public housing experts go into detail. Rishab Mehan & Jennifer Hoyle share insights about the Chicago Housing Authority’s ...

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Brinshore Development is shopping one of the largest affordable housing portfolios Chicago has seen in years, a move set to reshuffle ownership across some of the city’s most prominent mixed-income ...

Chicago’s high housing and mortgage rates, low inventory, stagnant wages and dwindling job prospects leave Gen Z workers with an unfortunate reality: Forget buying. Many struggle to simply move out of ...

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As Tribune journalist Lizzie Kane reported in June, Chicago is facing a housing crisis, and while many point to market forces, the real culprit is a self-inflicted wound: an overbearing bureaucracy ...

As New York voters embrace ambitious policies to build more housing, Chicago's sluggish process leaves us struggling to keep ...

The historic Lawson House, a former YMCA on Chicago's Near North Side, won a historic preservation award Tuesday for the $128 million restoration project that revitalized the building as affordable ...

The Chicago Plan Commission plowed through a backlog of long-awaited proposals Thursday, advancing a slate of projects that could reshape pockets of the city from Lincoln Park to the Far South Side.

The landlord has gotten millions in federal rent subsidies even as tenants complain about years of poor maintenance and deplorable conditions. In the beloved 1986 movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the ...