Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) is a public housing agency that helps provide decent and safe rental housing for eligible low-income families, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) manages several funded programs and has a total of 25,223 subsidized affordable housing units for rental assistance. Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) administered a total of 51,770 Section 8 Vouchers. Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) currently has low rent units and Section 8 Voucher as its program type. Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) is located at 60 E. Van Buren St, Chicago, IL, 60605 and serves the city of Chicago. Income limits, fair market rents and rent rates vary with each agency. Please contact Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) at, (312)742-8500 for more information about coverage area and program availability.

CHA is the largest owner of rental housing in the city of Chicago, providing homes to more than 50,000 families and individuals, while supporting healthy communities in neighborhoods all across the city. CHA has almost 9,400 apartments in buildings designated for seniors and more than 11,500 units of family housing. It also oversees the administration of 36,900 Housing Choice Vouchers that allow low-income families to rent in the private market.

CHA is currently undergoing the Plan for Transformation, the largest and most ambitious redevelopment effort of public housing in the history of the United States. As part of the Plan, CHA will redevelop or rehabilitate its entire stock of public housing.