The National Public Housing Museum has opened in Chicago after 18 years of planning and fundraising. Housed in the last surviving building of the Jane Addams Homes, a complex from the New Deal era that has been largely demolished, the museum looks to challenge negative stereotypes around federally supported housing projects by focusing on residents and highlighting artifacts that show how they lived — including two reconstructed apartments from the 1940s and 1960s.

The newly renovated facility, which also contains 15 units of public and affordable housing, arrives at a crucial moment for low-income housing in the US: As the Trump administration weighs major cuts to federal assistance, the museum serves as a reminder that not long ago, the “right to housing was a mainstream political demand,” writes contributor Zach Mortice. Today on CityLab: Chicago’s National Public Housing Museum Has a Message for Congress

— Rthvika Suvarna

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