{"id":33208,"date":"2016-03-02T13:11:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T19:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=33208"},"modified":"2016-03-02T13:33:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T19:33:41","slug":"housing-advocates-pressure-the-cha-to-keep-its-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/housing-advocates-pressure-the-cha-to-keep-its-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Advocates Pressure the CHA to \u201cKeep Its Promise\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Alexis Myers and Shen Wu Tan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Advocates for affordable housing recently campaigned for the passage of a housing ordinance that aims to reduce homelessness and protect the city\u2019s remaining subsidized housing stock at a City Hall public hearing Feb. 17.<\/p>\n

The ordinance called \u201cKeeping the Promise\u201d<\/a> would increase the distribution of housing vouchers, increase construction of affordable housing units across all neighborhoods and improve Chicago Housing Authority transparency. It would require the CHA to utilize 97 percent of its available housing voucher funds. <\/p>\n

According to the Chicago Housing Initiative<\/a>, the CHA was sitting on a $430 million surplus and withholding public housing vouchers from circulation\u2014with no debt, and a fully funded pension system.
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The CHA reportedly leased 44,809 vouchers last year, which is 6,894 vouchers short of what federal funding issued to the CHA to distribute to those on the waiting list according to a CHA 3rd Quarter Quarterly Report.<\/a><\/p>\n

During that time, 120,824 people remained on the waiting list, according to the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know of any other public entity that we can say is cash rich today,\u201d said Ald. Joe Moreno (1st), the chief sponsor of the ordinance. \u201cSpringfield can\u2019t say that. City of Chicago can\u2019t say that. Unfortunately, our public schools can\u2019t say that, but the CHA can say that. They have the money. We need them to spend the money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matthew Aguilar, the managing community director at the CHA, wrote in an email that \u201cthe CHA had a reserve fund of $154 million\u201d by the end of 2015. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs CEO [Eugene] Jones [Jr.] said at the hearing, we will continue to invest our resources to provide more housing options for people in neighborhoods across the city of Chicago through a strategy of building, acquiring and rehabbing housing,\u201d Aguilar wrote. \u201cWorking with residents, community stakeholders, aldermen and housing advocates we believe that we can create new housing affordable housing opportunities across Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones, the new CEO of the CHA, informed the City Council Committee on Housing and Real Estate at the hearing that the CHA intends to spend 90 percent of its housing voucher funds by next year. The remaining ten percent would be allocated for housing developments and resident services. <\/p>\n

Leah Levinger, director of the Chicago Housing Initiative, has been the frontrunner of numerous protests this year to get the housing committee onboard with the ordinance she and 25 City alderman sponsor to hold the CHA accountable for its actions. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe CHA has been underperforming on every possible performance metric and has been for the last four or five years,\u201d Levinger said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s from a lack of oversight and lack of regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those opposed to the ordinance said that while the ordinance has good intentions, it outlines unrealistic, micromanaging provisions. <\/p>\n

Julie Brown, co-leader of BPI\u2019s public housing committee, described the ordinance as \u201cunnecessary\u201d and an \u201cinhibitive bureaucracy that will slow development\u201d by restricting the flexibility of CHA funds.<\/p>\n

A letter by Francine Washington, chairwoman of the Central Advisory Council, to the Committee on Housing and Real Estate states \u201can obvious problem with holding CHA accountable for shortfalls in the housing conditions of its voucher program is that CHA does not own the properties used for this program.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf some landlords decide not to cooperate in achieving the CHA\u2019s goals, then the CHA will not meet its benchmarks, and public housing residents will suffer,\u201d the letter continues.<\/p>\n

The City Council Committee on Housing and Real Estate did not vote on the housing ordinance at the hearing. A second hearing must be held for a final decision to be reached. <\/p>\n

Discrepancies in CHA reports<\/h2>\n

The Center for Tax and Budget Accountability<\/a> confirmed the CHA sits on a $430 million surplus, also referred to as their working capital reserve, in a 2014 fiscal report. A 2015 annual financial report for CHA is not yet available. <\/p>\n

The CTBA also confirmed the number of unissued vouchers after investigating claims by the Chicago Housing Initiative.<\/p>\n

Amanda Kass, CTBA budget director and pension specialist, was one of the last pro-ordinance speakers at the 12-hour hearing. She said the CHA is issuing 6,894 less vouchers<\/a> than it received federal funding for.<\/p>\n

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Eugene Jones Jr., the new CEO of the CHA, explained why he opposes the Keeping the Promise ordinance at the public hearing (Shen Wu Tan\/MEDILL).
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\u201cBecause the CHA is in Moving to Work (MTW) it can use voucher money and spend it on other things,\u201d Kass said. \u201cThe problem is for years the CHA wasn\u2019t spending it on anything, which is why the reserve built up so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unclear if it\u2019s allocated to something else,\u201d Kass said. \u201cThere\u2019s no way to figure out what that (voucher money) is being set aside for at this moment in time.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a policy debate on housing and it comes with a lot of contention over what the best form of assistance is, Kass said. \u201cWhat the CHA doesn\u2019t make clear is how it\u2019s making that policy decision, so how is it deciding how many vouchers not to issue?\u201d<\/p>\n

If the CHA were to distribute all of its vouchers it would preclude them from doing development, Kass said, like the Lathrop Homes Project, which has been stalled for over a decade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kass said it\u2019s odd that the CHA doesn\u2019t lose funding because normally if a housing authority issues substantially fewer vouchers than they\u2019re funded to issue in one year, their funding would be cut in subsequent years. However, that doesn\u2019t happen to the CHA because they\u2019ve been in MTW since 2000 and have more financial flexibility. <\/p>\n

Aguilar wrote in an email that the CHA leased 45,973 vouchers and issued a total of 7,963 vouchers as of December 31, 2015. Although requested, this information from the 4th quarter quarterly report is not yet available to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the beginning of 2014, we were serving approximately 37,000 families and we are now serving nearly 46,000 families,\u201d Aguilar wrote. \u201cThe CHA plans to hold steady around the 46,000 level for 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n

Laura Donaldson and the CHA\u2019s wait list<\/h2>\n

Laura Donaldson, a 47-year-old mother with cerebral palsy who supports the ordinance, has been on the CHA waiting list for over 20 years. She has been living in a shelter on the South Side for over two years now. She said she feels blessed not to have to live on the street, but that it can be just as bad living in a shelter.<\/p>\n

Every morning Donaldson wakes up at 4 a.m. to get ready before the staff \u201ckicks her out\u201d at 6 a.m. It is a tough, restrictive life, she said, and with a CHA housing voucher she said she could live more freely.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am tired. I just want my own place, so I could get a job, go to school and get the proper exercise I need for my condition and I can\u2019t do that living in the shelter,\u201d Donaldson said. \u201cWith the ordinance, it would be wonderful because you have a lot of people who are disabled who are actively looking for housing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Donaldson is among 120,823 other people on the CHA\u2019s waiting list<\/a> to receive a housing voucher\u201481,072 of whom are female and 301 of whom requested accessible housing. <\/p>\n

\u201cA waiting list should not be decades,\u201d said Ald. James Cappleman (46th), one of the ordinance\u2019s sponsors. He added that the CHA needs to develop a strategy to reduce the waiting time for housing vouchers. <\/p>\n

According to a January report<\/a> conducted by the Department of Family Support Services, 6,786 Chicagoans are currently homeless and 30 percent more people are unsheltered than in 2014. The report also stated the homeless population \u201cremains overwhelmingly African American and outpaced the city in its proportion of children and veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Reporter Ryan Connelly Holmes interviews homeless people in Uptown who have been waiting for CHA housing vouchers. (Ryan Connelly Holmes\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n

With the passage of the ordinance, Donaldson said that she hopes she can finally live in a place of her own. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would have more freedom in life to do the things I want to do and know I could do,\u201d she said. \u201cI just need someone to give me the chance to do those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ald. Joe Moore (49th), the chairman of the City Council on Housing and Real Estate, has not indicated he will allow another hearing or vote on this ordinance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIdeally there would be some commitment on the part of the Administration to due process and allowing a vote to at least see if the ordinance will succeed or fail, but the chairman has total discretion,\u201d Levinger said. \u201cWe are going to have to organize the heck out of him and his constituents to push him to allow a second hearing with a vote to occur.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Ald. Joe Moreno (1st), chief sponsor of Keeping the Promise, urged for the Chicago Housing Authority to spend the rest of its reserve on housing vouchers at a news conference Feb. 17. (Shen Wu Tan\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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