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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Adams Block Club 5500
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BROWN HOUSE EXPERIENCE
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800 N Kedvale
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Talented Tenth College Prepatory Career Mentoring Organization
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HENRY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION OF LOVE
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Opera Matic NFP
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Working Family Solidarity
We request support for general operating expenses, to increase our organizational capacity and stability, and help us be more effective in our fight for workers rights/jobs, housing rights/affordable housing, and to develop the leadership of our members & constituents. This support will help us build on our victories for justice in disinvested communities, primarily with African American and Latinx families. We have organized low-wage workers to win workplace rights, justice in housing issues, and we are in leadership positions on several Chicago area coalitions. We now need to develop more leadership among our Board, staff, member-leaders and volunteers, and our community constituents in neighborhoods on Chicago's west, southwest, and south sides.
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University of Chicago Urban Labs
To support Chicagoans on their path to upward mobility, the City of Chicago will soon launch the Chicago Resilient Communities Pilot, a $31.5M monthly cash assistance program within the Chicago Recovery Plan. The program will provide 5,000 Chicago residents with $500 per month for one year, making it the largest-scale unconditional cash pilot in the country. Preference will be given to Chicagoans living in communities disproportionately harmed by COVID-19. Through this guaranteed income pilot, the City seeks to accelerate Chicago’s progress toward an equitable recovery and address long-term racial disparities. At the request of Mayor Lightfoot, the UChicago Inclusive Economy Lab has provided support with the articulation of a research program that will allow policymakers, elected officials, funders and advocates to learn from this ambitious initiative. This learning agenda seeks to accomplish three goals: • Measure the impact of this program on outcomes of policy interest • Share the impact of this program in participants’ own voices • Improve the design of future cash assistance programs. The evaluation will consist of a mixed-methods study that incorporates quantitative and qualitative research approaches. Because the City is likely to receive more than 5,000 applications for assistance from eligible individuals, it plans to conduct a lottery to distribute resources in a fair and transparent way. This creates an opportunity to generate rigorous evidence of the program’s impact for recipients and their households through a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design. This evaluation will assess the program’s impact on household financial stability, economic mobility, mental health, material hardship, and sense of agency. The study will leverage both administrative and commercial data, as well as a quarterly survey of study participants. A subset of study participants will also participate in structured interviews and ethnographic participatory observations.