by | Dec 1, 2020 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Events, Advocacy Updates, Organization Updates, Public Education & Organizing, RTLO
We need your help to pass protections for 245,000+ renter households in Cook County living in communities without a comprehensive tenant-landlord ordinance. For thirty years, renters living in Chicago, Evanston, and Mount Prospect have benefited from municipal...
by | Apr 19, 2018 | Advocacy Events, Housing Action Corps, Public Education & Organizing
Leah Demarest and Rachel Schwartz are AmeriCorps VISTAs at John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Clinic and Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, respectively. April 2018 marks 50 years since the passage of the federal Fair Housing Act. In light of...
by | Jul 26, 2017 | Advocacy Events, Public Education & Organizing
Housing Action Illinois is hitting the road to talk about the need for quality affordable housing across our state! This July and August, our staff and board are going to visit with nearly 25 organizations from around the state during our 30th Anniversary Caravan....
by | Feb 6, 2017 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Events, Advocacy Updates
On February 6, Housing Action Illinois held a webinar focusing on how housing advocates can best mobilize in response to policy and budget proposals that we are likely to see from the administration of President Donald Trump and/or members of Congress in 2017. During...
by | Nov 14, 2016 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Events, Advocacy Updates
Diane Yentel, President & CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, wrote this very helpful and insightful evaluation of where we stand after the federal election. Regardless of what we all personally think of the outcome, there is no denying that the...
by | Jun 16, 2016 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Events
In just two weeks, Illinois will start its second year without a state budget. We’re still urging lawmakers to put aside their differences and pass a balanced budget with adequate revenue before then. Meanwhile, it’s also vital that Governor Rauner sign...
