CHA Meets HUD Section 3 Requirements with JOC

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The Chicago Housing Authority is the third largest public housing agency in the nation, providing housing to more than 62,000 low-income residents.

Under HUD’s section 3 program, the authority is creating jobs for its residents using Job Order Contracting and partnering with Gordian to help them achieve continued success through mentoring and training.

Jose Alvarez, Chief Operating Officer, Chicago Housing Authority: HUD wants you to put low income people to work. They want you to prioritize on public housing residents and our folks that receive the housing-choice voucher subsidy. So creating opportunities like the Section 3 JOC program, it's crucial. As a matter of fact, last year alone we've issued $80 million worth of work to the Section 3 JOC program.

Michael Batchman, Senior Account manager, Gordian: Job Order Contracting is a streamlined procurement method to facilitate various construction projects. Under the Chicago Housing Authority, it is a fast-paced method to facilitate apartment renovations, housing renovations and things of that nature.

Jose Alvarez: Because of our partnership with Gordian, it's a lot easier for us to just identify the vendors, and then putting them to work immediately without having to go through a long procurement process.