Renters, homeowners and small businesses have felt the pressures of austerity, disinvestment and inequity in Chicago for decades.
During this critical moment, City Bureau’s housing team is working to help Chicagoans navigate these unprecedented times by centering community voices and creating necessary information resources. Our fall housing project is a deep dive into the COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts on the growing housing and eviction crisis, and how communities are responding.
Stories by the Team
As homelessness reaches record levels in Chicago and across the U.S., a dire need for housing has a drastic impact on the lives of three Bronzeville residents.
Longtime Bronzeville residents and advocates look to affordable housing plans and intentional investment to keep the celebrated Black neighborhood Black.
The TRiiBE: Many Black and brown Chicagoans find themselves in a conundrum: sacrifice communal ties by moving miles away to neighborhoods with abundant resources, or sacrifice safety and living wage jobs to stay close to home.
Casi un año después de la pandemia, los inquilinos continúan con dificultades; hay medidas que residentes y legisladores pueden tomar para minimizar el impacto.
Expertos dicen que se avecina una avalancha de desalojos. Pero ya miles de inquilinos de Chicago están al borde del precipicio de la vivienda.
Los residentes indocumentados que no pueden acceder a los estímulos federales y viven a duras penas, confían en los grupos comunitarios, pero ambos se están quedando sin opciones.
Solicita ayuda financiera, refugio de emergencia y apoyo a inquilinos durante este año.
Barred from federal stimulus and living paycheck to paycheck, undocumented tenants rely on community groups—but both are running out of options.
Experts say an eviction avalanche is coming. But thousands of Chicago renters have already been pushed to the brink of the housing cliff.
Find financial aid, emergency shelter, legal help and tenant support in 2021.
About the Reporting Team
Justin Agrelo is a yearlong Civic Reporting Resident at City Bureau covering a beat about housing and renting rights in Chicago. Malik Jackson, Woojae Julia Song and Natalie Frazier are Fall 2020 Civic Reporting Fellows.