Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has backed a controversial Chicago Housing Authority plan to keep unemployed public housing residents out of the mixed-income developments that are replacing CHA projects across the city.
Critics say such a rule would exclude perhaps 80 percent of current CHA tenants, who suffer a high rate of unemployment and often have poor work histories. Although the CHA has contended that residents relocated from condemned highrises would be able to return to mixed-income communities, some observers say the new rule is one more practical obstacle to making that possible.
Daley counters that CHA residents can be “made employable” through job training, substance abuse treatment, counseling and other social services.
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