From The Real Deal — June 15, 2018
Related Midwest’s 2010 deal to head up redevelopment of the Chicago Housing Authority’s aging Lathrop Homes threw the private developer into an 80-year-old public battleground.
In the decades after Mayor Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transformation called to restore all 925 of the winding riverfront property’s original apartments back to public housing, the housing authority made multiple revisions to its master plan for the site. In 2006, it settled on a mixed-income model, which drew scathing backlash from affordable-housing activists.
