Paving the Path to Homeownership for Housing Choice Voucher Holders
Since the mid-20th century, homeownership has been one of the most important vehicles for building wealth in the United States. According to research from the…
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For more than 100 years, The Chicago Community Trust has convened, supported, funded, and accelerated the work of community members and changemakers committed to strengthening the Chicago region. From building up our civic infrastructure to spearheading our response to the Great Recession, the Trust has brought our community together to face pressing challenges and seize our greatest opportunities. Today, that means confronting the racial and ethnic wealth gap.
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Law Center for Better Housing
The Law Center for Better Housing or LCBH meets the needs defined in the Sustainable Solutions for Housing Stability RFP by providing free legal and supportive services to renters facing eviction. LCBH is Chicago’s only legal aid organization that focuses its work exclusively on protecting renters’ rights. In 2023, LCBH served nearly 20,000 households at risk of eviction. Our programs reached renters in all 77 Chicago community areas and throughout suburban Cook County. LCBH requests a $150,000 grant to strengthen its organizational capacity to manage innovative programs that empower tenants to use chatbot technology to solve landlord disputes before an eviction is filed; protect renters in eviction court by providing them access to attorneys and emergency rental assistance; and advance housing justice by collaborating with the courts, government agencies, and community organizations to make Chicago’s eviction courtrooms more equitable.
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National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities
Building on the successful partnership of the Contextualizing the Migrant Narrative webinar series, Alianza Americas, along with the Latino Policy Forum, the Resurrection Project, and the Center for Immigrant Progress are planning to lead an educational delegation of decision-makers and stakeholders from the Chicago area to Mexico City, Mexico, and Bogota, Colombia, to understand firsthand the complexities of migration in these two countries and to define further how stakeholders in the U.S. can more sustainably and empathetically respond to the needs of all migrants with a transnational lens. Alianza Americas has been leading delegations to the region for 20 years and is well-known for its transnational approach to policies that impact Latin American and Caribbean immigrants. Participants will engage with civil society leaders in Mexico and Colombia to deepen their understanding of the various factors that force many to leave their homes, with an emphasis on Venezuela and Venezuelan migration; understand firsthand how sending, transit, and receiving countries like Mexico and Colombia can improve their policies and practices, and finally strengthen existing collaborations with allied organizations and build on new relationships with civil society actors to strengthen advocacy efforts across borders.
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The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
The University of Chicago Center for Effective Government (CEG) requests funds to support the Civic Leadership Academy (CLA) for the 2025 cohort year. The funding from CCT will be used to support fellows whose organization are working towards addressing the racial and ethnic wealth gap in Chicago.
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Reform for Illinois
General operating funds request for Reform for Illinois, with an emphasis on Fair Elections public campaign financing for Chicago, June 2024 grant cycle.
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Metropolitan Planning Council
MPC is planning an implementation partnership model to shape the early implementation of equitable lending products that were designed by the Advancing Innovative Homeownership Financing Solutions Community of Practice that we led over the past year. The goal is to ensure that the proposed impact of these products can be achieved. Creating an intentional transformation to the homeownership system goes beyond catalyzing exclusive capital to communities and focuses on shifting how capital enters communities and communities’ ability to shape that capital. We have also created an advisory committee to support the planning process of the implementation partnership and building out a Change Lab strategy for 2025.
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SMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC
Small Business Majority requests support to work with small business owners, policymakers and other key stakeholders to address barriers to accessing responsible capital that impact entrepreneurs, and especially entrepreneurs of color, across Chicago. We will work to advance reforms on these issues, championing the small business perspective in policy movements and amplifying the ways potential policies can support equitable entrepreneurship and advance racial justice and wealth-building in disinvested, low- and moderate-income communities. We will empower diverse entrepreneurs as subject matter experts and advocates in these movements, adding an influential voice of support in public and policymaker education campaigns.
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Latino Policy Forum
The programs and initiatives to be carried out through this proposal will advance four vital outcomes – Closing the Latino wealth gap, Reducing homelessness and housing insecurity, Supporting the wellbeing and flourishing of asylum seekers, and Developing skilled multicultural leaders who collaborate toward civic betterment. The Latino Policy Forum will pursue those outcomes in the research-based, highly collaborative ways that are consistent with the Forum’s stated mission – Through advocacy and analysis, the Forum builds a foundation for equity, justice, and economic prosperity for the Latino community.
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Center for Changing Lives
Center for Changing Lives (CCL) serves as a HUD-approved Housing Counseling organization and Financial Opportunity Center, addressing the dramatic increase in homelessness and barriers faced by newly arrived migrant and refugee populations. With a longstanding commitment to assisting the community with housing searches and application process, CCL ensures all services are delivered in a linguistically and relevant manner, inherently addressing barriers to secure housing. As data indicates a higher likelihood of doubled-up living situations and growing homelessness among the Latiné community in the City of Chicago, CCL utilizes a coaching model to eliminate barriers, facilitating migrant and immigrant families in securing and preserving their own safe housing. Furthermore, CCL provides continuous Resource Development Coaching, ensuring access to public benefits pertinent to housing, utility expenses and other income supports that are accessible to the Latiné immigrant community, and when possible to undocumented immigrants.