The CHA’s stated plan was to move all those people over the course of a decade and divide them roughly evenly among three types of housing: rehabilitated public housing units, subsidized private market rentals and new mixed-income housing developments.
About a decade later, a 2011 CHA report detailed what happened to former public housing residents.
The “transformation” of public housing benefited some residents. Fifty-six percent of the original residents remained in the system.
The remaining 44 percent left the housing system entirely, for various reasons. Some were just lost in the bureaucratic shuffle.
“Everything they told us, they reneged on,” says former Stateway resident Myia Fleming.
In 1993, photographer Patricia Evans took this photo of 10-year-old Tiffany Sanders. Almost 20 years later, Tiffany saw her photo on a book cover and got in touch with Evans. This is the story of what happened in those intervening years — to them, and to public housing in Chicago. http://apps.npr.org/lookatthis/posts/publichousing/