National Housing Residents Association Formerly Section 8 Tenant Congress

National Housing Residents Association Formerly Section 8 Tenant Congress Fight for the rights of subsidized housing residents towards quality living in their Housing Program and neighborhoods. All are invited who share our cause.

National Housing Residents Association is an advocacy organization. We promote the quiet enjoyment of housing communities in and around the greater Chicagoland area. We share resource and are committed towards inclusion of the underserved communities in the decision making process.

05/19/2026

The standard price to visit the Obama Presidential Center when it debuts next month will be $30. Across the Columbia Basin in the Jackson Park Lagoon, the Griffin Museum of Science & Industry has been thinking about how to deep-six a general admission fee that is almost as pricey.

The museum was free of charge for everyone until 1991, when attendance was more than double what it is now. CEO Chevy Humphrey wants to offer that deal again, perhaps in time for the institution’s 100th anniversary in 2033.

General admission tickets ($25.95 for adults) account for one-fifth of annual revenue, so getting to that free-admission goal will be quite a challenge. A big donor or two would help. Lassoing them is a pursuit Humphrey and museum trustees say she’s good at.

During her first year on the job, in 2021, Humphrey was struck by how many people mentioned being able to “just walk in” to the museum when they were younger. “And that’s something that’s stayed with me,” she says.

Humphrey, 61, is a Houston native who ran the Arizona Science Center. With exhibits like “Marvel’s Spider-Man: Beyond Amazing,” she is trying to broaden the Chicago museum’s appeal.

Read more here: https://www.chicagobusiness.com/nonprofits-philanthropy/ccb-museum-of-science-and-industry-admission-20260515/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=soc-own

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05/18/2026

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Faith Hernandez waited a month for the Chicago Housing Authority to find her an apartment so she could get away from her abuser. Then she waited a year for

05/18/2026

Attention college-bound South Siders! Looking for help with tuition? Applications are officially open for the Elevating Futures Red Line Extension Scholarship. Visit bit.ly/ElevatingFutures to see if you're eligible and to apply. Hurry, applications close May 31st!
The Walsh Group, VINCI Construction, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago Scholars

05/18/2026

A single mom encouraged her 11-year-old son to make honest cash… so he launched a lawn care service with his friends 🙏🏽 ♥️

05/18/2026

Congratulations to JD Collins, Founder & CEO of Formbreakers Entertainment! 🥳

His seven minute film “Redline Prophecies” won Best Experimental Short Film at the Chicago Short Film Festival and was featured at Olive Harvey’s Criminal Justice Short Film Festival.

A Chicago Public Housing resident and 2025 WORC Business Academy graduate, JD used his $5,000 WORC grant to launch Formbreakers Entertainment and complete “Redline Prophecies” — a powerful story set on the CTA Red Line confronting race, poverty, and survival.

JD describes the grant as “lifesaving,” empowering him to step into his purpose and open doors for other Black creatives. Today, his company delivers freelance video production and original content that amplifies voices too often unheard.

🎬 Find Formbreakers Entertainment on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/
💼 Happy National Small Business Month!

For details on the WORC Business Academy contact: [email protected].

04/29/2026

A Black businessman won 52 million dollars in the lottery and invested it all back into his community — and the decision to channel that windfall into communal rebuilding rather than personal accumulation represents a specific and deliberate philosophy about what wealth is actually for.In Florida, his lottery winnings have been directed into local businesses, education initiatives, and community development projects designed to foster economic growth and create opportunity for residents in the African American community. The investments are aimed not at symbolic gestures but at structural change — the kind of sustained economic activity that creates jobs, builds capacity, and compounds over time in ways that a single donation cannot.The historical context of this decision matters. African American communities across the United States carry the accumulated weight of policies and practices that systematically excluded them from wealth-building opportunities for generations — redlining, discriminatory lending, exclusion from government programs that built the middle class for other groups, and the destruction of thriving Black economic districts that had built themselves despite those exclusions. The wealth gap that exists today is not the result of individual choices in isolation. It is the product of compounding historical disadvantage that compounding historical investment is the most logical response to.A man who won a lottery and could have spent the money on anything chose to put it back into the community that shaped him. He chose to address the inequalities that context represents with the resources now available to him.52 million dollars. Directed inward. Toward the people.Wealth has different meanings depending on what you do with it.He decided what it meant to him.

03/03/2026

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