Henry Horner Homes

Henry Horner Homes

Henry Horner Homes is a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing development. The development is located in Chicago's Near West Side at Damen Street and Lake Street near the United Center. The homes are named after former Illinois Governor Henry Horner. It is the setting for the non-fiction book "There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America" by Alex Kotlowitz.

History

Henry Horner Homes originally consisted of 16 high-rise buildings along with low-rise buildings and was completed in 1957.The Henry Horner Homes extension was added in 1961, which included 920 multi-story units.

A redevelopment project, referred to as the Plan for Transformation, is currently in progess to rehabilitate the buildings and create mixed-income housing. [ [http://www.newcommunities.org/communities/westhaven/about.asp?communityID=13 New Communities Program] ] The new neighborhood will be called "West Haven." [cite web | url=http://www.chicagojournal.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=60&ArticleID=3963&TM=35945.88 | title="Remaining Horner building vacated" | author=Maidenberg, Micah | date=2008-02-06 | accessdate=2008-09-18] Phase I of the project, which involved the building of 461 replacement housing units, was completed in 2001. Phase II will be worked on in three stages: public housing, affordable housing and market rate housing. [ [http://www.thecha.org/housingdev/henry_horner_homes.html Chicago Housing Authority Web site] ]

The last high-rise building was demolished in June 2005.

Problems

Gang activity has plagued the housing development for decades. The gangs, such as the Blackstone Rangers, assert authority over the area and residents are often in the middle of gang warfare and criminal activity. [cite web | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1D81031F937A35751C1A961948260 | title="What It's Like To Be In Hell " | author=Walinsky, Adam | publisher=New York Times | date=1987-12-04| accessdate=2008-09-18]

ee also

*Subsidized housing
*Housing subsidies

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