Chicago community welcomes new Chicago Housing Authority CEO

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Chicago leaders gathered this week to welcome Charles Woodyard as he begins his new role as CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority. Julia Stasch, vice president of U.S. programs at The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which hosted the reception, extended Woodyard a warm welcome, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CHA Board President Jim Reynolds also were on hand at the Chicago Cultural Center’s Preston Bradley Hall to commemorate the start of Woodyard’s tenure at CHA.

Woodyard took the reins at CHA on October 24 after being appointed by Mayor Emanuel in September. He joins the agency from Charlotte, North Carolina, where he headed that city’s housing authority since 2002. Both the Mayor and the CHA have highlighted Woodyard’s strong track record of integrating public housing into the broader community, especially through mixed-income housing, a defining component of Chicago’s ambitious Plan for Transformation of public housing. Woodyard joins the agency nearly 12 years into the 15-year Plan.

Photo: Charles Woodyard is the Chicago Housing Authority's new CEO

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