The Chicago Housing Authority is preparing to open its family housing wait list for the first time in more than a decade. The city uses the list, which has been closed since 1999, to fill vacancies in its nearly 10,000 rental units designated for family housing, said Kellie O’Connell-Miller, a spokeswoman for the housing authority.
A lottery to select 40,000 families for placement on the wait list will be conducted this summer after a four-week registration period from June 14 to July 9. Registration will be entirely online at CHAwaitlist.org.
Ms. O’Connell-Miller said the agency expected nearly 1,000 units to become available this year.
The lottery will probably create an active wait list of five to seven years, she said, depending on the rate of turnover in existing public housing properties and the development of new ones.
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