I put in an application for serveral years now nobody hasn't call me yet.i heard CHS through the 4,5000 people off the list they claim the try to email you or sent out letters .some folks I knew sign up and never gotten a letter or email .that bad

Thanks much for a wonderfully researched article. A family member is a voucher holder with a disability and has experienced unbelievable hurdles from every direction. Why not work with voucher holders to organize and be a voice to correct a system that clearly has systemic problems.

I would not believe one word out of anyone working for the CHA, especially political hack Eugene Jones. Jones is just the current HUD flunkie in charge at CHA, but as in the past he probably won't be there long and another useless flunkie will be appointed, that is if HUD is still in exsistance.

The federal government wants out of the housing business. That is why all the government owned projects were torn down and the people given vouchers. But now HUD and Section 8 are facing the biggest cuts in the agencies history, there will not be any increase in vouchers or money to fund them, or the CHA. By this time next year it is expected that some 200,000 vouchers nationwide will have to be rescinded as there will be no money to pay for them. Dallas and Houston Texas have already rescinded 1500 vouchers due to budget cuts.

At HUD headquarters in DC the employee cafeteria has been shut down and gutted. Half of that huge building is empty and locked off. The staff at HUD is half of what it was some 15 years ago. Since Trump took office and appointed Ben Carson to run HUD much of the senior staff has left or was fired. The future of Section 8 is bleak, I suspect what will happen is that the program will be divided up and moved into different exsisting agencies as the government moves to shut down HUD. So I would say if you do not have a voucher, you are not going to get one, even if you did no landlords will take them because they see the writing on the wall. For those who have them expect some serious changes to the program. 1. Timelimits 2. Mandatory work requirements 3. Tougher screening on criminal background, evictions and credit checks. 4. Pretty much the only people the program will service in the future will be seniors, vets and the disabled.

They don't want any citizen or renters advisory groups, they don't have the money to pay them and Trump wants the agency shutdown. That is the reality.

I've long believed that the entire nationwide initiative to get rid of housing projects, although marketed as a way of getting residents "out of the ghetto," was a not-so-clandestine effort to do exactly what this article suggests: dilute their collective power, at the ballot box and elsewhere.

If my memory serves me correctly, quite a few cities embarked on programs like this in the wake of the Rodney King riots in 1992; by then, quite a few major cities had elected African-American mayors, and especially in places like Chicago, where that mayor was not only a Black man but a true political progressive, it was sending shock waves through the white political establishment. That kind of political power among "those people" had to be stopped at all costs. So it seemed to be no coincidence that "urban renewal" once again represented a thinly disguised strategy of "Negro Removal".

One quibble: I wish the article had given appropriate credit to the late Beauty Turner, a tireless housing/social justice activist who led the initiative to organize the [ultimately failed] struggle to resist the demolition of the projects. Ms. Beauty, a resident of Robert Taylor, was a dear friend of mine, and she would be proud to see this article -- but she certainly deserves credit, alongside other heroes like Marion Stamps, for helping to spearhead and keep alive the social movements the article describes.

Well this is really about David caught between two goliaths whose mission is to let public housing implode upon itself it's really funny though that the people who run it of course have probably never been residents or set foot in public housing their attitude of course is that it is beneath and in keeping with that theorem they can say things like get your s&^%t together if that ain't a poverty pimp line then I don't know what is but the only good thing about it is when public housing dries up EJ will be out of a job but like all rats he'll swim to the nearest shore.