At the beginning of the 1990's, there were 14,000 households living below the poverty line.
The proportion of households living on benefits is very high.
"We have four households living under one roof," she said.
More than 1.2 million households currently live in public housing of some type.
As of the 2010 census, there were 2,695,598 people with 1,045,560 households living in Chicago.
It has two subdivisions, with almost 1,200 households living in them.
At this time there were 151 households living in 148 dwellings.
One rural district had 44.9 percent of households living below the poverty line (2005).
There are also about 94,200 elderly households living in controlled housing.
There are 664 households living below the poverty line (13.98%).