by | Jan 16, 2014 | Advocacy Updates
On January 16, the House and Senate finally passed a fiscal year 2014 federal budget, more than three months after the beginning of the fiscal year. The final budget represented a compromise between the House and Senate, so does not contain the deep cuts feared, but...
by | Jan 8, 2014 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Events, Advocacy Updates
Housing Action Illinois has endorsed the A Better Illinois Campaign in support of Fair Tax legislation—with lower tax rates for lower incomes and higher rates for higher incomes. Without a Fair Tax, we won’t we able to make much progress towards making sure...
by | Jan 3, 2014 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates
Please support our efforts to get Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to include $6 million for the Homeless Prevention Program in his fiscal year (FY) 2015 budget proposal. Governor Quinn will release his proposal on February 19. The Homeless Prevention Program provides...
by | Dec 19, 2013 | Advocacy Updates
Our partners at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law put together this useful summary of the the new state law protecting tenants in foreclosed buildings. The law went into effect on November 19. For more information, please contact Jeremy Bergstrom,...
by | Dec 9, 2013 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates
Illinois currently has 82 organizations that have endorsed the United for Homes Campaign and Housing Action Illinois is working to increase that number to 110 before the end of the year. The United for Homes Campaign is a national effort to to fund the National...
by | Dec 3, 2013 | Advocacy Alerts, Advocacy Updates
Sequestration is bad public policy that is placing even further strain on tens of thousands of low income families across the country. Nondefense discretionary (NDD) programs—including most U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and U.S. Department of...
