Another Cabrini-Green high-rise set to come down in Chicago.
The Chicago Housing Authority has sent out eviction notices to residents of one of the last remaining high-rises in the Cabrini-Green development. The 48-year old building – nicknamed “the Himalaya” – comprises 134 units, but only 31 families still live there. They all received 30-day eviction notices Tuesday.
CHA Chief Executive Officer Lewis A. Jordan said the decision to close the Near North Side building – a moved deemed an “emergency closure” – was spurred by increasing crime and low occupancy.
“First and foremost, our job is to put people in better and safer housing,” Jordan said in a statement. “We can no longer tolerate seeing good people live in deteriorating and unsafe conditions. . . . The families there are at great risk.”
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