Chicago

Together with partners and funders, we’ve helped create or preserve 22,200 affordable homes for families by leveraging over $1.8 billion in capital across the region.

Some of our key programs include:

• Equitable Path Forward: Supports BIPOC housing providers with access to capital, advisory services, and leadership training.
• Fifth Third’s Empowering Black Futures: Promotes equitable growth and economic mobility in South Chicago in collaboration with local organizations.
• Decarbonization Hub: Connects multifamily portfolio owners to resources that support electrification projects through an online platform.
• Chicago Flats Initiative: Advocates for the preservation of Chicago’s two- to four-flats to provide affordable rental and homeownership opportunities.
• Elevated Chicago: Collaborates across sectors to promote equitable transit-oriented development of public spaces, buildings and vacant land.
• Qualified Allocation Plan Racial Equity Impact Assessment: Ensures that developments supported by Low-Income Housing Tax Credits are equitably allocated

RFP Opportunity

HUD Section 4 Capacity Building Grants - RURAL AND TRIBAL NOW AVAILABLE

We help CDCs, CHDOs, Tribes, TDHEs, THAs and Native CDFIs maximize the impact of Section 4 funding. Applications are due 1/31/25. Learn more.