Battling Homelessness: A Mother’s Journey Towards Stability
Over 1 million women and over 2 million children experience homelessness every year in the United States despite it being one of the richest countries in the world.
Doubled-Up and Overlooked: Homelessness Definition Doesn’t Reflect Most Vulnerable
The definition of homelessness federal agencies use “needs to be amended,” said Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection.
Community Leaders Come Together To Find Solutions For Housing Crisis In Chicago
Program affords families the opportunity to stay in neighborhoods they’ve lived in their whole lives and be protected from the rapid gentrification.
‘Doubling-up’ Homelessness: Overlooked and Unsupported
“You can feel like a little bitsy person sometimes, and it’s not that nobody making you feel [that way], but this is what you feel inside.”
Chicago Politics: Housing Equity
Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez, 25th Ward and Chair of the Committee on Housing and Real Estate, discusses the responses to Chicago’s housing crisis.
Carlos Fernandez: Challenging Corporate Power
Creating transformative change by building power with working families through strategic community-labor organizing, grassroots leadership development, civic engagement, and training.