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- EIN 23-7443009
- (773) 329-4010
- 1279 N Milwaukee Avenue Chicago IL 60622-9360 USA
- www.nhschicago.org
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Causes: Financial Counseling, Homeless & Housing, Housing Development, Construction & Management, Human Service Organizations, Human Services
Mission: Nhs' mission is to create opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen their neighborhoods. Nhs deploys a suite of products, services, and strategies to fulfill its mission, primarily including:(i) educating and preparing new homeowners for success, and sustaining homeownership through foreclosure intervention services, financial coaching, and educational workshops. (ii) connecting residents to available resources, such as home purchase and improvement loans, and public grant opportunities, to encourage the preservation, repair, and improvement of the supply of residential housing. (iii) developing and supporting resident leaders in targeted geographies. (iv) building powerful and enduring community partnerships with and between community residents, government, financial institutions and private sector partners, and other community-based partners.
Programs: Neighborhood housing services of chicago, inc. (nhs) offers its products and services citywide in chicago, with neighborhood-based offices in auburn gresham and englewood; chicago lawn and gage park; north lawndale; roseland; and west humboldt park. Through its suburban offices in elgin, il and east hazel crest, il, nhs serves the kane county and south suburban cook county. Nhs also operates three place-based partnerships focused on special programs. Approximately 80% of nhs' clients are low to moderate income. Nhs served over 4,900 households in fy 2017. Nhs' counseling and education services provided classroom education to over 1,500 potential homebuyers and in person pre-purchase counseling to over 1,100 potential homebuyers. These programs were offered to potential homebuyers through nhs free 8-hour homebuyer curriculum (offered both in english and spanish weekly) and online via ehome america; providing individual counseling and intervention services over 969 homeowners at risk of foreclosure.
nhs' executive management team and the innovation, evaluation and public policy department works across nhs' business lines to craft new solutions to the ever-changing issues facing underinvested neighborhoods and low and moderate income communities in the chicago region. Nhs partners and staff are pioneering efforts to respond to neighborhood and regional issues and to anticipate future needs for nhs' target neighborhoods and customers. Nhs converts the knowledge and experience gained through its daily work in the neighborhoods to new programs and public policy initiatives that can directly benefit those communities and the chicago region.