Giving Prisoners Another Chance Through Affordable Housing

The Chicago Housing Authority’s prisoner reentry pilot program, which allows some prisoners to live in CHA housing upon their release, was the recent subject of a thoughtful article in AtlanticMedia’s Citylab.  The author is BPI’s Maddy Hamlin, our newest Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellow, who focused her Syracuse University master’s thesis on the program.

“The pilot is an innovative attempt to overcome policy isolationism: the funneling of complex problems like urban crime into singular agencies, like departments of correction, which then fail to deal with those problems holistically, thus perpetuating cycles like recidivism,” she writes.

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