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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…

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 thesis examines the University of Chicago’s relationship to its neighbors from 1925 to 1940. During this period, the “Chicago School” sociologists Ernest Burgess, Robert Park, and Louis Wirth published research on the city which legitimized…

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…

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

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…

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 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…

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…

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…