WELCOME

Do you picture home as a safe, comfortable place for you and your family to be?

Do you picture that home in a community of people who have that same image?

So do we.  We are the Northwest Side Housing Center (NWSHC).  We work with people on the northwest side of Chicago to make that picture a reality.

The Northwest Side Housing Center (NWSHC) is an Illinois nonprofit organization that opened in June of 2003 in response to the needs of the residents of the northwest side of Chicago.  The mission of NWSHC is to build and strengthen our community by working with people for safe and affordable housing.   We envision a diverse community where people are connected to each other and live in safe and affordable housing 

Explore this website and find ways to improve your life and family. Work with us for the betterment of our community.

NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS

The Housing Crisis affects the entire community:

 What are your concerns?

Foreclosures?
Vacant Houses on the block?
Modifications of you mortgage?
Affordable Housing?
Rental property?
Trouble with your lender?

Neighbors and residents are meeting to address these issues.

Please call Vanessa Quiles at 773-283-3888 ext. 23 for more information.

 

Staying Put Senior Leadership Meeting

Are you looking for ways to get involved in your community?  Would you like to join other mature adults in making your neighborhood a better place to live?
A group of energetic, northwest side older adults meet monthly to work on issues that will improve the community and help them live independently.
Our next meeting:

Every third Tuesday of the month at 10:00am
Mather's More than a Cafe
3235 N. Central 

The leadership is currently working on door-to-door transportation for seniors on the northwest side as well as a senior-teen link program that would help seniors "stay put" in the neighborhood. 

Please call Vanessa Quiles at 773-283-3888 ext. 23 for more information.
 

Housing Center in the News

Chicago Tribune, 12-3-10, "After a long struggle with their bank, the Huerta family can keep their home after finally receiving a permanent loan modification. Associate Director Liz Caton is quoted."

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Chicago Tribune, 10-24-10, "A family working with the Northwest Side Housing Center is featured on the front page of the Chicago Tribune. The family did everything they were supposed to do to get a loan modification, but were turned down because the bank decided they had saved too much."
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successes

In her early 30s, Katharine is a full-time student working on her doctorate degree. She needed a place ...

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"We are just happy to have contacted the Housing Center and how everything went through and was ...

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programs

The Northwest Side Housing Center has worked with community residents and local agencies to develop the programs and organizing campaigns that work to improve the quality of life on the northwest side.


We have grown from solely providing housing counseling to a multi-faceted organization that combines both community organizing and direct service.

Learn more about our progams here. 


support

Individual supporters make our work possible.

Please contribute today.


stay in touch

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