by | Oct 10, 2019 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates
The Trump administration is escalating its fight against fair housing by attempting to gut a critical legal tool to fight housing discrimination: the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Disparate Impact Rule. Disparate Impact is an important legal...
by | Jul 22, 2019 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates, Press Releases
For Immediate Release: July 22, 2019 For more information contact: Kristin Ginger, Communications Manager, Housing Action Illinois, kristin@housingactionil.org or 312-854-3333 Housing Action Illinois is excited to become a formal state partner of Opportunity Starts at...
by | Jun 11, 2019 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates
On May 10, 2019, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a proposed rule that would prohibit mixed status families from living in public housing and other HUD assisted housing. Mixed status families are households that include both members...
by | Jun 6, 2019 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates
With Governor JB Pritzker taking office, this was an extremely busy and productive General Assembly session, with final action on several key items, including the fiscal year 2020 budget and the first major capital budget since 2009, not being finalized until a brief...
by | Jun 1, 2019 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates
We did it! State legislators voted to put the fair tax amendment on the November 2020 ballot, giving every voter in Illinois the opportunity to weigh in on whether the Fair Tax is right for Illinois. We need to thank our legislators for taking this step to put...
by | May 10, 2019 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates
We’re closer than ever to a Fair Tax, but your State Representative needs to hear from you! We urge you to call 888-412-6570 right now to tell your State Representative you support a Fair Tax! Each day we come closer to a vote on the Fair Tax, our opponents are...
