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Chicago Residents Sue to Save Section 8 Housing
August 8, 2005
Millions of low-income Americans look to the federal government for help in finding affordable housing, but units under one subsidy program are fast disappearing. Some subsidized housing residents in Chicago are fighting to keep their homes in the program by taking the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to court.
Renters Learn How to Protect Housing
Natalie Moore, Chicago Public Radio
October 26, 2007
Some activists on the South Side want to train apartment renters how to defend their affordable housing. A first step, they say, is for people to band together in tenant councils. A workshop on just how do to that is on the agenda tomorrow at a housing conference sponsored by the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, or KOCO. The group says that the South Side’s dwindling stock of affordable housing is what’s driving the effort. Chicago Public Radio’s Natalie Moore has the story.
