More than 1,000 Chicago Housing Authority residents who are behind on rent have not paid for an average of nearly two years.
CHA’s Office of the Inspector General report from the last quarter of 2024 found that as of March 1, 2024, CHA was owed more than $10.4 million dollars in rent by these 1,394 residents and was failing to enforce its lease agreements with them.
CHA is the third largest public housing authority in the country, serving more than 65,000 households, and it also is the largest single owner of rental housing in the city with more than 21,000 public housing units. The agency has a 2025 budget of $1.3 billion.
