Chicago Housing Authority focuses on homeless

The Chicago Housing Authority is reporting the largest waitlist registration in years.

Officials say more than 282,000 people have registered for the waitlist lottery for low-income households. Those who registered represent about half of low-income eligible households in the city. Officials say in 2010, about 203,000 people registered for a family waiting list.

The registration period was from Oct. 27 through Monday.

Officials with the housing authority say they are targeting homeless populations.

A Tuesday news release says about 15,900 of those who registered reported being homeless, meaning they live in a shelter or transitional housing. In January 2014 the number was about 6,300 people.

A computer lottery will take place early next year for those on the list.