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IHARP's Subsidized Housing Data

Four databases are available for public access at this time. They are: a list of basic information including funding layers on subsidized developments throughout State of Illinois, multifamily rental developments in Chicago, a complete listing of Illinois' Low Income Housing Tax Credit financed developments and the housing choice voucher data for the 6 county region.

Please Note: 3 Databases are currently temporarily unavailable. If you have any questions regarding data, please call Martha Glas at 413-0215

Subsidized Housing Developments (Statewide) (Excel format, 962K)

This dataset includes basic information on subsidized developments including the total number of units, number of assisted units, and the various funding layers of each development. Data is sorted by county.

Subsidized Multifamily Rental Developments (Chicago) (Excel format, 488K)

This dataset includes information on Chicago multi-family rental developments that received funding through the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program, and various IHDA or HUD programs. The database is therefore lacking data on most projects that did not receive funding from any of these sources. This includes the relatively small number of projects that received funding solely though the City's Department of Housing multifamily program or through CDBG, HOME or TIF dollars.

Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Developments (Statewide) (Excel format, 504K)

The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Developments (Statewide) is the most important resource for creating affordable housing in the United States today. The database, created by IHARP and now available to the public, contains information on more than 800 projects and 45,000 housing units placed in service in Illinois between 1987 and 2003 - roughly 700 of which are presently in service. To learn more about this database, or to read IHARP's analysis of the data, please refer to our 2002 report on the Tax Credit program in Illinois.

Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) holders (Chicago and 6 County region) (Excel format, 76K)

The database includes 5 worksheets: 1) HCV by Chicago Community Areas, 2) HVC by Wards, 3) HCV by Congressional Districts, 4) HCV by Senate Districts, 5) HCV by Representative Districts.

Putting the "Choice" in Housing Choice Vouchers (Part 3). This report was produced by the Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance (CAFHA) as part of the Housing Choice Voucher Advocacy Project. It is the third in a series of reports produced by CAFHA documenting the history and continuing problems of segregation in the operation of public housing and the Housing Choice Voucher program in the Chicago metropolitan region. Staff of the Voorhees Neighborhood Center had the opportunity to work with this group on analyzing the data. The report maps the location of the Housing Choice Vouchers in the Chicago metropolitan region to demonstrate the need for affirmative efforts to provide greater access to areas of opportunity for families using vouchers. The full report can be found at http://www.state.il.us/dhr/Housenet/Vouchers.pdf. For more information on CAFHA please visit their website site http://www.cafha.org.

Three tables that are found in the report are available here in excel format. All tables include data for Chicago by Community Areas and for the Chicago 6 county region by municipality.

Table 1A-G (Excel, 80K) - Households: Total, White, Black, Latino, and White, Non-Latino
Table 2A-G (Excel, 64K) - Voucher Holder Households: Female-headed, Black, Latino
Table 3A-G (Excel, 64K) - Rental Units, Ratio of Units to Voucher Holders, and Family Poverty Rate

Although IHARP goes to great lengths to verify and update the housing information presented in our databases, unfortunately we can not claim the data to be free from errors or be fully up to date. Data was received by housing funders such as the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) and the City of Chicago's Department of Housing (DOH). However, the data funders provide on their own developments is often incomplete, inconsistent or simply incorrect. IHARP continues to search alternate data sources and reconcile discrepancies but mistakes are likely to remain. Please refer to the data dictionary for field definitions.