Housing
Information on supportive housing and locating/maintaining housing.
Section 811 & Statewide Referral Network (SRN) | Supportive Housing | Community Profiles | Key Resources | Cook County Just Housing Amendment |Cook County Commission on Human Rights
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Section 811 & Statewide Referral Network (SRN)
Supportive Housing
The Corporation for Supportive Housing provides support to Colbert & Williams Class Members on finding and maintaining housing in the community. These are recorded webinars on various aspects of this domain as well as additional resources.
- Building Relationships with Landlords 1/28/25
- Understanding Section 811 and the State Referral Network Recording | Slides 10/29/2024
- Overcoming Barriers and Avoiding Delays 9/24/24
- Reasonable Accommodation Training Recording | Slides 7/31/24
- Tenant Engagement and Leadership Recorded Training 9/6/23
- CSH Description of Support (PDF) 6/2023
- Bridge Subsidy Housing Forms, Policies and Procedures Recorded Webinar May 18 2023
- August 2022: Discrimination in Rental Housing Recorded Webinar
- Housing Location Guide (PDF) 10/2022
- Citizenship & Housing Guide (PDF) 6/2022
- February 10, 2022: Working Through Housing Discrimination
Recorded Webinar | Slides - Accessing Housing (PDF) 12/2021
- June 25, 2020: Eviction Prevention in Supportive Housing
Recorded webinar |Webinar transcript| Slides - June 11, 2020: Housing Subsidies 101
Recorded webinar |Webinar transcript| Slides - May 14, 2020: Coordinating with Property Management
Recorded webinar |Webinar transcript| Slides - April 24, 2020: Virtual Housing Location and Landlord Engagement Recorded webinar | Webinar transcript | Slides
- Supportive Housing 101 (MP4) | Transcript
- April 16, 2020: Housing Processes Overview
Recorded webinar |Webinar transcript |Slides
Reasonable Accommodation Templates (7/21/2022)
- Justice History
- Landlord Reference
- No Credit
- Physical Disability
- Reason Accommodations Community Facing 2022
Sample Appeal Letters created by Legal Aid Chicago – Each Sample Letter includes:
- Educational Letter – can be sent prior to an applicant applying
- Soft Demand Letter – can be sent when applicant is denied and they are trying to convince the Landlord to change their policy
- Hard Demand Letter – can be sent when the Landlord ignores the Soft Demand Letter
- Credit Score Requirement Sample Appeal Letters (1/15/25)
- Criminal History Sample Appeal Letters (11/19/24)
- Income Requirement Sample Letters (11/19/24)
- Not accepting Bridge Subsidies Sample Letters (11/19/24)
Community Profiles
As the number of Class Members in the community is growing, so is the saturation of neighborhoods, landlord relationships, and need for housing resources. CSH in conjunction with the Division of Mental Health created community profiles to give the support staff and Class Members the opportunity to learn about other neighborhoods that are less saturated and offer similarities to neighborhoods and area that they are more familiar with.
The compilation document below includes Albany Park, Grand Boulevard, West Ridge, Near North Side, Avalon Park, and Logan Square. Individual documents are also provided for Humboldt Park and North Chicago.
Key Resources
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Fair Housing
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Housing First
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Harm Reduction
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Bridge Subsidy Resources
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Class Member Resources
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Scattered-Site Supportive Housing
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Sample Resources
Cook County Just Housing Amendment
Effective January 2020, Cook County landlords can no longer ask about arrest or conviction records on a housing application, and cannot consider conviction records more than 3 years old, arrests, charges, or citations, or certain other legal background issues in approving an application for housing.
Cook County Commission on Human Rights
On February 3, 2022, the Cook County Commission on Human Rights Commissioners issued a memorandum, “Source of Income Protections Under Cook County Human Rights Ordinance.” View the memo.