The Long Way Home

Chicago is razing its crime-infested towers to resettle the poor. But prejudice and a tight rental market are hampering the big plan

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A good start would be to put some of the $1.6 billion of federal dollars into improving the pool of housing available for voucher families and develop ways to place tenants around the city anonymously so they can avoid the stigma of coming from the projects. The CHA has come quite a long way, but there is still much work to be done, not so much with the poor but in the hearts and minds of their prospective neighbors.

--With reporting by Maggie Sieger/Chicago

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