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When people come together, real change is possible. With your help, we can expand access to affordable housing, prevent and end homelessness, and create an Illinois where everyone has good, stable homes. Here are some ways you can take action today.
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Sign National Letter to Support Federal Housing Funding
Help Ensure THUD Appropriations Subcommittees Have Highest Possible Funding for Housing Programs in FY15! Last year, over 2,400 organizations signed a letter to support increasing the federal allocation for housing, transportation and community development funding. ...
FY14 Budget Agreement for Housing and Homelessness: Deep Cuts Avoided But Still Insufficient Funding
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...
Support A Better Illinois! Sign the Petition and Attend a Campaign Kickoff Event
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 that...
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...