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Habitat for Humanity Chicago receives grant from Ring to support neighborhood revitalization projects in Chicago CHICAGO, IL – Habitat for Humanity Chicago received a $20,000 grant from Ring, an Amazon company, to support neighborhood resident revitalization projects, including youth programming...

Read with us! Our staff is reading Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law from now until November, and we invite you to join us. As you read each chapter, visit this page periodically to find updates to our reading guide of reflections questions, takeaways from Habitat Chicago staff members, and...

From completing his AmeriCorps term with us in 2021 to joining our Associate Board in 2023, Christian’s support of Habitat Chicago has differed throughout the years, yet his passion and commitment to healthy neighborhoods has remained steadfast. We interviewed the current architect to learn what...

Decades of discriminatory and racist housing practices have made Chicago’s Black-White homeownership gap the largest among the nation’s ten biggest metropolitan areas, according to the Urban Institute. 1 - "We Will Chicago" plan, Housing & Neighborhood pillar, July 2022 According to the Bureau of...

Watch the Race + Housing Series panel discussion and learn how you can fight housing inequity in Chicago.