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AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Good News Partners
 Their purpose is to create safe, affordable and reliable housing and support building confidence and community simultaneously. Good News Partners (GNP) is a faith-based community organization that strives to bring about conditions in which hope, justice, responsibility, and reconciliation flourish in Chicago's East Rogers Park North of Howard neighborhood. GNP provides affordable housing for otherwise homeless families with a step-by-step transition from interim housing to independent living.
www.goodnewspartners.org
Habitat for Humanity
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Housing Opportunity Development Corporation
 Housing Opportunity Development Corporation (HODC) is committed to expanding housing opportunities in Chicago's northern suburbs. As a nonprofit, community-based organization, HODC develops and manages affordable homes for low- and moderate-income households. HODC also offers first-time homebuyer counseling and educational presentations on affordable housing issues.
www.hodc.org
Interfaith Housing Center of the Northern Suburbs
 620 Lincoln Avenue
Winnetka, Illinois 60093-2308
(847) 501-5760
ihcns@interfaithhousingcenter.org
www.interfaithhousingcenter.org
 Kolbe House
Kolbe House is an agency of the Archdiocese of Chicago that serves those involved in the criminal justice system. Their ministry includes one-to-one visits, pastoral counseling, celebrating Mass, religious services and outreach through other social services. They listen to and stand with family members, provide emergency services to the incarcerated, their families and other families in similar situations. Every month, the parish St. Vincent DePaul Society collects items to donate to Kolbe House. A list of items needed for these care packages is posted in the church vestibule. For more information on Kolbe House, visit: www.kolbehouseministry.org/
The National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF)
 Created in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HEA) to address the severe shortage of rental homes that are affordable for the lowest income families, but has not yet been funded. The President proposed funding for the fund in his 2010-2011-budget request. The housing trust fund will, once capitalized, provide communities with funds to build preserve and rehabilitate rental homes that are affordable for extremely and very low-income households.
In the United States today, there are only 37 rental homes available and affordable for every 100 households with incomes below 20% of their area median. A scarcity of housing that the poorest families can afford is the principle cause of homelessness in the United States.
Investment in the NHTF will create good jobs. Every $1 billion provided to the Trust Fund will support the immediate construction of 10,000 rental homes, creating 15,100 new construction jobs and 3,800 new jobs in ongoing operations.
The National Housing Trust Fund campaign continues to urge Congress to fund the NHTF as a way to help communities build and preserve housing for people with the lowest incomes, as well as to create needed jobs. As the next step in our campaign to capitalize the fund, the NHTF campaign is calling for organizations across the country to sign the following national sign-on letter.
To sign on to the National Housing Trust Fund letter go to
www.nlihc.org/sign.
South Shore Banking Center
 A community development and environmental bank in the Chicago area that is committed to building stronger communities, creating a healthier environment, and helping its customers achieve financial success. It is a specially designed, regulated bank can help to reverse the decline of inner-city neighborhoods coping with disinvestment and discrimination. For more information, visit:
www.sbk.com/bins/site/templates/splash.asp
 A social enterprise designed to help severely impoverished men and women out of poverty. StreetWise is a general interest magazine with a gritty "from the streets perspective" to give insight to its readers on what is really going on in Chicago. By using vendors as the distribution mechanism, they personalize the face of poverty and create income for the vendor. http://www.streetwise.org/
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