Decent, stable, and affordable housing is crucial for a family's overall health and well-being. Please read Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer-Prize winning Evicted and Poverty, By America when you can to get a better sense of what is going on and how we can all personally impact change on this front. Families living in decent housing experience fewer health issues and are less likely to require emergency care. Children living in quality and affordable housing are significantly more likely to graduate from high school and college. Families living in affordable homes have double the discretionary income to pay down debt or invest in a savings account. 

With one in ten Chicagoans currently living in inadequate housing, the time to act is now! I'm participating in a build day in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood of Chicago and helping to raise funds for Habitat for Humanity Chicago, a nonprofit committed to building a city where every resident lives in a healthy home in a stable community. 

I invite you to join me by contributing to my goal of $500, y to ensure that more families have the opportunity to thrive. I appreciate any support you can give - big, small, or somewhere in between!

Deirdre