The Chicago Housing Authority Police Department was created in 1989 to provide dedicated policing for what had become one of the most impoverished and crime-ridden housing developments in the country, and was dissolved only ten years later. The situation was so dire that the entire CHA board of commissioners resigned in 1995, effectively handing over control of the agency to Housing and Urban Development.
The Chicago Housing Authority Police Department was created in 1989 to address the severe lawlessness in one of America's most impoverished housing projects, which ultimately led to its disbanding a decade later. The crisis prompted the CHA board of commissioners to resign en masse in 1995, allowing Housing and Urban Development to assume control.