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Join us for a Webinar on June 5: Crowdfunding: The Next Community Development Financing Tool?
Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: Crowdfunding is the process of raising small amounts of money from a large base of individual backers—the “crowd”—to fund a variety of initiatives. Through online “portals” like Kickstarter that have almost become...
Tell Your State Legislators to Make Income Tax Increase Permanent to Stop Deep Budget Cuts
By the end of May, the Illinois General Assembly will decide whether to pass a budget that has enough revenue to maintain current spending levels for education, heath care, human services and public safety or pass a budget that makes cuts in all these program areas....
House FY15 Federal Budget Proposal Contains Deep Cuts for Affordable Housing Programs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 7, 2014 CONTACT: Bob Palmer, Policy Director, Housing Action Illinois, 312-282-3959 (cell) or bob@housingactionil.org On May 7, the House Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations Subcommittee will likely approve...
Register Today for the NHNLA Training: Financial Counseling for Low-Wealth Clients
Housing Counselors and social service case managers increasingly find themselves dealing with clients who need to address various financial barriers. This three-day course provides the basic strategies and information needed to increase counseling professionals'...
State and Federal Budget Advocacy Webinar: Slides Available
On our April 4 webinar, we covered the most important current issues related to the state and federal budgets for housing and homeless programs, including: STATE BUDGET: The focus was on the FY15 state budget for Emergency and Transitional Housing, Homeless...
Join us for a Housing Counseling Webinar on April 10: Is Discriminatory Default Servicing a Factor in Homeowner Default Outcomes?
Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: The U.S. Treasury requires servicers to monitor compliance with fair lending laws, but does not do an assessment as to which servicers are meeting this requirement. Analyses of data done in other states give...
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Foreclosure Prevention Best Practices Between Housing Counselors and Servicers
Join the IHCC (Illinois Housing Counseling Coalition) Advocacy Committee for the following event. ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Foreclosure Prevention Best Practices Between Housing Counselors and Servicers The Chicago Community Trust 225 N Michigan Ave. Suite 2200, Chicago...
Minimum Wage Earner in Illinois Must Work 84 Hours Per Week to Afford a Modest Home: Another Reason to Support a Minimum Wage Increase
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 24, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. CT CONTACT: Bob Palmer, Policy Director, Housing Action Illinois, 312-282-3959 (cell) or bob@housingactionil.org WASHINGTON, D.C.–Renters in Illinois need to earn $17.34 per hour...
Urge Senator Kirk to Support Increased Federal Resources to End Homelessness
Congress has begun the process for creating the fiscal year 2015 federal budget. Housing Action Illinois is making a special effort to get Senator Mark Kirk to support a funding level of at least $2.4 billion in FY 2015 for federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance...
Training Opportunity for Housing Counselors: Homeownership Intake Assessment
Housing Counselors are invited to attend this training opportunity sponsored by Housing Action Illinois and the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago LEARN HOW TO: Conduct a full assessment of a foreclosure Read and understand a docket Differentiate the...