Via the Chicago Tribune:

"For more than a decade, poor people couldn't even get their names on a waiting list for federally subsidized rental housing in Chicago.

"On Thursday, a brief and small window will open for those who hope for a shot at one of the rental vouchers commonly known as Section 8. During the next four weeks, low-income families can enter a lottery for one of 40,000 spots on the waiting list . . . .

"Competition for Section 8 vouchers in Chicago has been made particularly fierce by the Plan for Transformation, the city's effort to demolish high-rise public housing and replace it with mixed-income communities. Each family evicted from a high-rise has automatically moved to the top of the Section 8 waiting list, with a temporary voucher to hold them over . . . .

"The application, which is free, will be available online beginning Thursday at Rentbetter.org, at libraries or from the CHA."

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