Mayor Brandon Johnson announced the appointment of Lissette Castañeda as the new commissioner for Chicago’s Department of Housing Thursday. Castañeda currently serves as executive director of LUCHA, an affordable housing advocacy and housing counseling organization that also owns and manages a handful of residential buildings in Chicago. Her appointment is subject to City Council approval. Advertisement Castañeda fills the seat vacated by Marisa Novara, who began leading the reconstituted Department of Housing in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration in the summer of 2019. Housing had been absorbed into the planning department a…
