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Nearly four months into the COVID-19 crisis, the network of shelters, isolation centers, and hotels that the city and organizations have put together to care for people experiencing homelessness has been relatively successful—though many shelter…

Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) is a nonprofit developer, owner, and operator of affordable rental apartments in several urban communities in the Chicago area. POAH’s primary mission is to preserve and steward sustainable affordable renting…

This study is directed toward illumination of the relationships which exist between property values and race of occupancy; more specifically, it is limited to the study of the effect which Negro occupancy exerts upon the price of real estate in…

An article put forward by the Chicago Tribune, it describes the effort initiated and led by Lamell McMorris to right the wrongs of redlining. Though the practice of redlining was the most prominent from 1933 to 1968, it has long-lasting impact…

The city of Chicago carries a long and storied tradition of community engagement, from Jane Addams to Ida B. Wells to Harold Washington. It was that tradition which helped draw President Obama to Chicago in the first place. And it is that tradition…

Woodlawn, on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of Chicago's 77 community areas. It is bounded by Lake Michigan to the east, 60th Street to the north, Martin Luther King Drive to the west, and 67th Street to the south. Much of its eastern…

The Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University finds that displacement pressure increased in 2017 for neighborhoods like Woodlawn, where development and potential investments were underway. It is worth noting that West Woodlawn has been…

This map shows residential area, vacant area, commercial frontage, railroad property, and transit lines in Woodlawn. 

The Woodlawn Parcel Survey (WPS) was a 2017 community-based initiative to collect use, occupancy, and conditions data for all 4,875 parcels of land within Woodlawn’s boundaries. Results from the survey form the foundation upon which this website is…

Nearly half a century since the onset of the Plan for Transformation, various neighborhoods in Chicago see the changes brought by the Chicago Housing Authority. As federal funding dies down, it is critical to discuss urban landscape and community…