by | Mar 13, 2018 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates, Press Releases
The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, a new report released today by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) and Housing Action Illinois, finds a severe shortage of affordable rental homes for the extremely low-income (ELI) renter households across the...
by | Mar 7, 2018 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates, Press Releases
39% of eviction filings do not lead to a judgment against the tenant, but these tenants still get rejected when applying to rent CHICAGO—A new report by Housing Action Illinois and the Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing (LCBH) explores how an eviction filing...
by | Jan 1, 2018 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates, Press Releases
New State Law Protects People from Predatory Contracts for Deed and Installment Sales Contracts Watch our webinar outlining the new protections. As of January 1, 2018, would-be homeowners are protected from predatory rent-to-own contracts by a new state law that...
by | Dec 19, 2017 | Accomplishments, Advocacy Updates, Housing Counselor Updates, Housing Developer Updates, Organization Updates, Public Education & Organizing
1. Housing Action Illinois turned 30! We celebrated thirty years of leading the movement for affordable homes in Illinois—and renewed our resolve to continue working until everyone in our state has a stable, healthy, affordable place to call home. 2. We passed a law...
by | Nov 9, 2017 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates
Tax reform presents a rare opportunity to address an important barrier to economic success: the lack of good, affordable homes throughout the U.S. The federal tax reform plan released by House Republicans last week is irresponsible and unacceptable. It will increase...
by | Jul 7, 2017 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates
We are extremely pleased that the state budget impasse has been resolved now that the House and Senate successfully overrode Governor Rauner’s vetoes of the spending, revenue and budget implementation legislation (Senate Bill 6, Senate Bill 9 and Senate Bill 42,...
