Affordable
The city’s list shows 29,550 affordable rental homes in 598 buildings. It was last updated Dec. 30, 2024.
City list last updated Dec. 30, 2024 · federal count through 2025 · checked Nov. 14, 2026
Where the listed homes are
Homes on the city’s list, by ward.
Tap or point at a ward to see its numbers.
Most homes on the list
Fewest
Wards 19 and 30 have no building on the list. That is not the same as no affordable housing.
All 50 wards
| Ward | Homes on the city’s list |
|---|---|
| Ward 3 | 3,921 |
| Ward 27 | 3,427 |
| Ward 4 | 2,390 |
| Ward 28 | 2,051 |
| Ward 20 | 1,877 |
| Ward 26 | 1,212 |
| Ward 49 | 1,178 |
| Ward 24 | 1,063 |
| Ward 46 | 1,016 |
| Ward 9 | 885 |
| Ward 48 | 842 |
| Ward 16 | 766 |
| Ward 1 | 490 |
| Ward 29 | 480 |
| Ward 39 | 477 |
| Ward 21 | 462 |
| Ward 5 | 436 |
| Ward 31 | 412 |
| Ward 6 | 382 |
| Ward 25 | 359 |
| Ward 32 | 344 |
| Ward 44 | 333 |
| Ward 8 | 308 |
| Ward 17 | 308 |
| Ward 11 | 287 |
| Ward 7 | 280 |
| Ward 10 | 257 |
| Ward 18 | 250 |
| Ward 34 | 242 |
| Ward 14 | 239 |
| Ward 50 | 233 |
| Ward 47 | 229 |
| Ward 45 | 208 |
| Ward 2 | 202 |
| Ward 35 | 199 |
| Ward 15 | 196 |
| Ward 33 | 187 |
| Ward 22 | 180 |
| Ward 36 | 175 |
| Ward 37 | 133 |
| Ward 38 | 131 |
| Ward 40 | 110 |
| Ward 23 | 89 |
| Ward 13 | 87 |
| Ward 41 | 85 |
| Ward 43 | 68 |
| Ward 42 | 34 |
| Ward 12 | 30 |
| Ward 19 | 0 |
| Ward 30 | 0 |
Is the number growing? The federal count is up 2% since 2014
Homes in Chicago with federal rent help each year: public housing, rent vouchers and federally subsidized buildings. This is HUD’s yearly count, a different list from the city’s above.
What the 106,578 homes in 2025 are
104,550 homes in 2014, 106,578 in 2025: up 2%. Rent vouchers rose by about 9,300; public housing fell by about 6,400.
The city’s own list still cannot show growth: it has no opening dates and keeps only its current version (last updated Dec. 30, 2024).
The 2024–2028 housing bond
The city’s Housing and Economic Development Bond plan projects 600 to 1,000 affordable rental homes built or preserved, and 600 or more mixed-income homes every five years from its new Green Social Housing fund. The city has not published a running count against those figures. The bond plan ›
The list is the Department of Housing’s “Affordable Rental Housing Developments”: buildings the city financed, plus those built under its affordable requirements rule. The city describes it as among the thousands of homes it supports and provides it as a courtesy. Ward totals place each building by its map location on the 2023 ward map. The federal count is HUD’s “Picture of Subsidized Households” for Chicago: homes under contract or available in each federal program at the end of each year. A voucher counts as one home wherever it is used. It leaves out buildings financed only with tax credits or city money, so it overlaps the city’s list but is not the same thing.
Sources: City of Chicago Department of Housing, Affordable Rental Housing Developments (Chicago Data Portal, updated Dec. 30, 2024); 2023 ward boundaries; Housing and Economic Development Bond Book (July 2024); U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Picture of Subsidized Households, 2014–2025.