Subsidized & affordable housing

Where is subsidized and income-restricted housing across Chicago? Search your address to see your community area, or click any area on the map. Switch between HUD Housing Choice Vouchers and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) units — both shown per 1,000 parcels so a large community area doesn’t win on size alone.

Full ranking — all 77 neighborhoods

Rank	Neighborhood	voucher households per 1,000 parcels
1	Washington Park	355
2	Kenwood	267
3	South Shore	244
4	Woodlawn	227
5	Grand Boulevard	225
6	North Lawndale	210
7	West Garfield Park	185
8	East Garfield Park	185
9	Oakland	176
10	Riverdale	174
11	Greater Grand Crossing	169
12	Douglas	163
13	Chatham	162
14	Englewood	154
15	Fuller Park	150
16	Auburn Gresham	146
17	Austin	137
18	Morgan Park	98.3
19	Rogers Park	97.5
20	Roseland	92.5
21	Humboldt Park	90.5
22	Hyde Park	80.9
23	Washington Heights	80.5
24	Chicago Lawn	79.1
25	Burnside	78.4
26	West Pullman	77.8
27	South Chicago	77.5
28	Avalon Park	73.5
29	South Deering	68.3
30	Pullman	63.7
31	Hermosa	63.1
32	West Englewood	60.6
33	Near West Side	58.4
34	Montclare	55.6
35	Calumet Heights	52.9
36	West Ridge	52.0
37	Ashburn	50.4
38	Belmont Cragin	50.1
39	Edgewater	41.5
40	Lower West Side	35.8
41	Near South Side	34.5
42	Logan Square	34.4
43	Beverly	33.5
44	Hegewisch	31.9
45	Uptown	31.5
46	South Lawndale	30.3
47	Armour Square	29.3
48	East Side	27.3
49	North Park	25.9
50	North Center	21.6
51	Clearing	20.1
52	Lincoln Park	19.5
53	New City	19.0
54	Portage Park	18.5
55	Near North Side	18.3
56	Irving Park	17.2
57	Albany Park	15.9
58	Lincoln Square	15.2
59	Avondale	14.8
60	West Town	12.9
61	Garfield Ridge	11.2
62	West Lawn	10.8
63	Gage Park	10.3
64	Lake View	9.4
65	Loop	9.3
66	Dunning	8.2
67	O'Hare	8.0
68	West Elsdon	7.7
69	Jefferson Park	7.7
70	McKinley Park	4.9
71	Mount Greenwood	4.3
72	Brighton Park	3.5
73	Bridgeport	3.4
74	Norwood Park	1.2
75	Archer Heights	0.1
76	Forest Glen	0.0
77	Edison Park	0.0

How to read this map

Vouchers counts households using a HUD Housing Choice Voucher (formerly Section 8) — the largest federal rental-assistance program. HUD reports these per census tract, so we area-weight them onto each community area (an area spanning several tracts blends their counts by how much land each contributes). LIHTC units counts the affordable rental homes built with Low-Income Housing Tax Credits since 1987, summed from the individual project locations that fall inside each community area.

The ramp is neutral on purpose: concentration of subsidized housing is context, not a good or a bad — read it alongside rent burden and the neighborhood’s other maps.

HUD suppresses voucher counts for tracts with only a handful of households, so a community area whose tracts are all suppressed shows “insufficient data” rather than a fabricated zero. Source: HUD Picture of Subsidized Households (Housing Choice Vouchers by tract) and the HUD LIHTC database, intersected with Census TIGER/Line tract boundaries for Cook County. See methodology for details.