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Wage gap puts housing out of reach for many Illinois residents: Kendall County Chronicle, 6/10/16
Affordable housing out of reach for many in Illinois: Chicago Citizen, 6/7/16
Illinois Renters Must Earn Nearly $20 An Hour To Afford A Modest Two-Bedroom Apartment, Report Finds: Progress Illinois, 5/25/16
New Report by Chicago Urban League Highlights Housing Segregation: Chicago Examiner, 4/21/16
Judge Orders Compensation For Elderly Black Victims Of Reverse Mortgage Scam: Chicago Reporter, 01/28/16
ISU Grad Student Helps Others Find Affordable Housing: ISU News, 01/25/16
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Ask Governor Quinn to Include $6 Million for the Homeless Prevention Program in Next Year’s Budget
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...
New State Law Supporting Illinois Renters in Foreclosure Goes into Effect
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,...
Help Illinois Be United for Homes: Have Your Organization Endorse the Campaign by December 31
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...
Call your Members of Congress Today and Urge Them to Cancel Sequestration and Protect Housing Programs
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...
Action Alert: Tell Senator Kirk that Mel Watt Deserves a Confirmation Vote to Direct Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)
The U.S. Senate is expected to consider the confirmation of Representative Mel Watt (D-NC) as the new director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Thursday, October 31. Housing Action Illinois, the Woodstock Institute and many, many others around the...
Webinar Presentation Available: Introduction to the United for Homes Campaign
Webinar Held on Tuesday, September 10 at 1:00 p.m. [br] Slides from the presentation are available by clicking here. [br] United for Homes is the campaign to fund the National Housing Trust Fund with revenue raised from modifications to the mortgage interest...
Current Alert: Urge Senator Kirk to Support THUD Funding Bill on the Floor
The full Senate began considering the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) bill, S.1243, today. The bill will likely need significant bipartisan support to pass the Senate. The Senate bill would provide $6 billion more in funding...
United for Homes Proposal Needs to be Part of Tax Reform!
Urge Senators Durbin and Kirk to Support Mortgage Interest Deduction Reform and National Housing Trust Fund by July 26 The leaders of the Senate Finance Committee have informed their colleagues that they want to start from a “blank slate” on comprehensive federal tax...
Welcome to the 2013-2014 Illinois Affordable Housing Support Project (IAHSP) AmeriCorp VISTA Volunteers
For the 2013-14 year, Housing Action Illinois is glad to provide the following 21 organizations with 23 VISTA volunteers and to work with Finella Murphy and Marti Osteyee-Hoffman, our two VISTA Leaders who manage the IASHP out of our office. Affordable Housing...
Last Chance to Impact House Version of Federal Housing Budget is TODAY!
Please Call Your Representative's Capitol Office The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) plans to finalize and vote on the fiscal year 2014 (FY14) federal housing budget tomorrow morning,...
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