Millennium City: Richard M. Daley & Global Chicago

Housing

Daley implemented programs to encourage developers, assist homeowners and renters, promote affordable housing, and fix problems in public housing.

Affordable housing

img: [affordable housing expo images: esp. 7-215-30 or 7-216-2] [note: Needs to be sent to photo lab as of March 19, 2020] 
img: [documents from renter assistance programs] [note: Needs to be sent to photo lab as of March 19, 2020] 
img: [documents on efforts to fight predatory lending, e.g., HB 4050: 1-287, folders 2 through 7; or 1-303-6] [note: Needs to be sent to photo lab as of March 19, 2020]  

The Plan for Transformation

img: [Public housing image, perhaps from RMD’s tour of Cabrini Green in 1992: 7-97-42/44….may also be a daily schedule for the tour] [note: Needs to be sent to photo lab as of March 19, 2020] 

When Mayor Daley took office in 1989, public housing in Chicago faced a number of challenges.

Julia Stasch, housing commissioner (1997-1999), explains:

To address those problems, Mayor Daley worked with the federal government on what came to be called the Plan for Transformation. Under this plan, highrise complexes gave way to mixed-income developments.

Elzie Higginbottom, Chicago real estate developer, and Marilyn Katz, a political consultant to the mayor, discuss the importants of mixed-income developments:

Terry Peterson, CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority (2000-2006), comments on the help Chicago received from the federal government:

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