... state. The exodus of the working class deepened an already serious fiscal crisis at the CHA, but the CHA, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Congress danced around issues more than they confronted them. African Americans abandonment in black neighborhoods Chicago Housing Authority CHA...

... Americans, joined with the American Civil Liberties Union and filed suit in 1966 to block the CHA's site selections. On August 9, 1966, Alexander Polikoff, a Chicago corporate attorney, filed two class action suits, one against the CHA and the other against the Department of Housing and Urban Development...