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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.
Dear Habitat for Humanity Chicago Supporters: The city of Chicago and our nation are collectively experiencing a period of public reckoning with our history of racial discrimination and injustice. The murder of George Floyd in 2020 and countless other acts of violence against Black people have...
In honor of Earth Day, we’d like to spotlight our home-improvement retail store, ReStore Chicago, and its contribution to building a more circular environment here in Chicago. When you donate an item to ReStore Chicago, it does much more than find a new home with a shopper and keep waste out of...
This year will mark Habitat Chicago’s tenth-annual Women Build, bringing hundreds of women together to fundraise, advocate, and further construction progress on women-owned homes over the course of ten days in October. Women Build has yielded much success over the years due to the passionate and...

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