National Public Housing Museum

The mission of the National Public Housing Museum (NPHM) is to preserve, promote, and propel the right of all people to a place to call home. Incorporated in 2007, NPHM is the first cultural institution dedicated to interpreting the American experience in public housing. Through the use of art, historic artifacts, oral histories, and other methodologies, NPHM creates opportunities for patrons to understand the history, scope, and complexity of housing insecurity. The National Public Housing Museum is located in the last remaining building of the former Jane Addams Homes which has been preserved as a result of the advocacy of former public housing residents. The National Public Housing Museum produces programming that invites the public to grapple with the history of public housing in order to address contemporary housing injustice challenges, in partnership with public housing residents, humanities scholars, and artists. This award provides general operating support to the National Public Housing Museum in the Culture, Equity, and the Arts area of the Chicago Commitment strategy.