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The Woodlawn Housing Data Project (2017)
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…
Map of Woodlawn Community (1920s)
This map shows residential area, vacant area, commercial frontage, railroad property, and transit lines in Woodlawn.
A West Woodlawn native wants to right redlining wrongs with some greenlining — and he’s starting in the neighborhood where he grew up (2020)
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…
Analyzing Neighborhoods with Intensifying and Emerging Housing Affordability Pressure (2018)
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…
Get Off My Woodlawn: Community Organizing in Woodlawn in Response to the Obama Presidential Center (2020)
Community organizing has often been used in the City of Chicago to advocate for local interests. Woodlawn, a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, has a particularly rich history of organizing in order to achieve policy change and elevate the…
Jackson Park in the Past and Present: Major Points of Change and their Impact on Local Communities (2018)
Jackson Park has been an integral public space in Chicago’s South Side for over a century. As the site of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, the park began its existence as the place where Chicago introduced itself to the world. Since then, several major…
Lost in the Shuffle: the future of traditional public housing under the CHA's Plan for Transformation (2014)
The Chicago Housing Authority launched the Plan for Transformation, aiming to demolish public housing and to force former residents into mixed-income housing. Initiated in 1999, the Plan for Transformation has long lasting ripple effects in South…
No Vacancy? CHA may have empty units. Why can’t supply meet demand? (2020)
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…
POAH's Woodlawn Revitalization (2017)
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…
Racial Succession and Changing Property Values in Residential Chicago (1953)
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…