National Public Housing Museum Opens in Chicago, Honoring Residents and Housing Justice

Political officials and National Public Housing Museum staffers, residents and advocates were on hand for the National Public Housing Museum groundbreaking at 919 S. Ada Street on Chicago’s Near West Side on Friday (April 4) (Photo Credit: Tacuma R. Roeback). 
The battle over affordable housing has raged for decades in Chicago, where Black and Brown communities have long been disadvantaged and caught in the middle. Public housing, with its complicated history of promise and neglect, i