The city of Chicago, a hospital and the Chicago Housing Authority have negotiated a land deal on the West Side that is supposed to bring new housing.

Sinai Hospital needs a new, bigger facility. The Chicago Housing Authority needs to fulfill its commitment of building 300 units of mixed-income housing in the neighborhood. The city owned idle land. All of this is in the struggling North Lawndale community. Officials say the land swap is even.

Also, CHA CEO Lewis Jordan says public housing residents will benefit from the new hospital.

JORDAN: It just helps to add to the quality of life of our residents who will be there, the opportunities that they’ll create not only in job and training but life skills.

CHA officials say the hospital will not start building until groundbreaking on the housing begins. The first phase of housing construction costs $50 million and starts next year.