Chicago & Midwest + Downtown + Finance | August 5, 2022

Grants Bring National Public Housing Museum to Fundraising Goal

With grants of $1 million from the Builders Initiative and Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Foundations, and a Community Development Grant through the Chicago Recovery Plan, the National Public Housing Museum has reached its $14.5-million fundraising goal.

It plans to break ground on its physical home, an adaptive reuse of the last remaining building of the former Jane Addams Homes in Chicago’s Little Italy, this fall.

“The museum draws on the power of place and memory to preserve, promote and propel the right of all people to have a place where they can live and prosper,” said NPHM executive director Lisa Yun Lee .

”This mission is grounded in social justice and human rights, and we are tackling it with a multifaceted approach that encompasses culture, activism and entrepreneurship. It’s a groundbreaking undertaking, and we wouldn’t be here or able to undertake it without our visionary founders and funders.”

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