The Chicago Housing Authority also maintains a regularly updated list of businesses with contact information that claim to be Section 3 business concerns that are potential partners as well (CHA, 2013e). A Request for Qualifications and/or Request for Proposal could identify businesses and organizations that actively hire in Woodlawn and would be interested in the potential partnership.
The first local economic development initiative calls on POAH to partner with a workforce development intermediary to successfully develop HUD Section 3 business concern in Woodlawn for performing work on all Choice Neighborhoods construction projects, including the redevelopment of Grove Parc Plaza, development of off-site replacement housing, planned commercial developments, and any development associated with the Small Building Initiative. This is, of course, already an interest of POAH, but the formation of a partnership with an intermediary or a firm would improve the effort. One such organization is 180 Properties, a joint venture between the workforce intermediary Cara Program and Mercy Housing that provides intensive job training to hard-to-employ workers for inspecting and maintaining vacant properties.
Chicago Housing Authority. (2013e, May). Section 3 Business List – May 2013 Draft.
Date Published or Accessed: 2013-05-00 May 2013