CHA unveils Lathrop Homes redevelopment plan

Lathrop Homes residents and Logan Square neighbors came out in full force Wednesday night to voice concerns over the redevelopment of a rare island of low-income housing on the North Side.

Many Lathrop residents came to the packed Alcott College Prep gymnasium to ask one question: Where will I live?

That's because the sprawling plan, a decade in the making, will be a mixed-income development, meaning fewer than half of the units will go to low-income tenants like the ones already displaced when the Chicago Housing Authority slated Lathrop for redevelopment as part of the agency's Plan for Transformation 15 years ago.

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