Dive Brief:

• A place where as many as 15,000 people once lived in high-rise public housing – and came to live in fear of gang violence – Chicago's Cabrini-Green is on the boards for redevelopment with half market-rate housing.
• The Chicago Housing Authority is planning on putting retail and green space on the land. 30% of the new units to be built are designated for public housing and 20% for affordable housing.
• The Cabrini-Green site redevelopment is part of the authority's goal of building or rehabilitating 25,000 subsidized units citywide by 2015.

Dive Insight:

A new Cabrini-Green development will go a long way to erasing memories of the chaotic mini-city that the housing towers had become before the project was closed and the buildings razed. Cabrini-Green was an example of how a massive effort to help the poor find housing could take a wrong turn.