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Windy City Habitat for Humanity

  • Windy City Habitat works towards strong families and neighborhoods by offering a hand-up, not a hand-out. With the help of community volunteers, we partner with families in need to build simple, decent, affordable homes. Families invest in over 250 hours of volunteer work and homeownership classes before purchasing their homes with a 0% interest mortgage. Mortgage payments are then invested back into the next Habitat home.
Affordable Homeownership Makes a Difference:
  • It can increase a family’s health, educational, and economic outcomes.
  • Children are more likely to graduate high school and have higher paying jobs
  • It is a critical part of building stronger neighborhoods through stability and property taxes


Why it’s Critical
Housing problems, from cost burden to unsafe conditions, have a tremendous impact on families’ bottom lines and can trigger poverty and homelessness. Women are particularly vulnerable to poverty across their lifespan. Unequal wages, time-consuming care giving responsibilities, and small retirement cushions all make maintaining decent housing a huge challenge for many female-led households.  

-41.2 % of Illinois female-headed households with children and no spouse are in poverty; more than double that of male-headed households with children. 
-At minimum wage, a woman would need to work an impossible 89 hours per week to afford a two-bedroom apartment in Cook County.
-In Illinois, there are only 59 available affordable rental units for every 100 low-income renter households.
-In Cook County, nearly 30% of households are severely rent-burdened.

From the 2013 Report on IL Poverty, Heartland Alliance