page_title: Chicago Housing Authority
section_title: Other lawsuits
hierarchical_section_title: Chicago Housing Authority / Lawsuits / Other lawsuits
caption_attribution_description: English: (Chicago Housing Authority) Vivian Gordon Harsh Apartments, Bronzeville
context_page_description: The Chicago Housing Authority is a municipal corporation that oversees public housing within the city of Chicago. The agency's Board of Commissioners is appointed by the city's mayor, and has a budget independent from that of the city of Chicago. CHA is the largest rental landlord in Chicago, with more than 50,000 households. CHA owns over 21,000 apartments. It also oversees the administration of 37,000 Section 8 vouchers. The current acting CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority is Tracey Scott.
context_section_description: In May 2013, The Cabrini-Green Local Advisory Council and former residents of the Cabrini-Green housing project sued the housing authority for reneging on promises for the residents to return the neighborhood after redevelopment. The suit claimed that the housing authority at the time had only renovated a quarter of the remaining row-houses, making only a small percentage of them public housing.
  In September 2015, four residents sued the housing authority over utility allowances. Residents claimed the CHA overcharged them for rent and didn't credit them for utility costs.
caption: Harsh Apartments in the North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood.
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