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Seven parishes unite to build walls for Habitat house
Seven parishes. Nearly 300 volunteers. More than $15,000. Ninety-six wall panels. That is what it took for members of seven southwest suburban parishes to pre-assemble walls for a duplex house that will be constructed by Habitat for Humanity in Elwood.
Online forum discusses barriers to affordable housing in Chicago
Chicago’s history of racist housing structures has contributed to an ongoing crisis of affordable and accessible housing, according to speakers at “Chicago’s Housing Crisis: A Catholic Response.”
Group ‘reclaims’ neighborhood around St. Rita of Cascia Parish
Cardinal Cupich called the results obtained so far by the Southwest Organizing Project’s Reclaiming Project a miracle.
Need for affordable housing
At Catholic Charities’ 101st annual meeting of our board of advisers in October, we released a position paper titled “Building Hope: The Need for Affordable Housing.”
Part 2: Local Catholics help end contract buying
Fifty years after the Contract Buyers League was formed in Chicago, activists continue to fight against predatory lending, especially in poor neighborhoods and those that are predominantly home to people of color.
Local Catholics helped effort to end contract buying
Clyde Ross was working two jobs in the summer of 1967. His wife, Lillie, worked too, but between them, they could barely make ends meet, feeding and educating five children, and hold onto the house they bought on Flournoy Street in the city’s Lawndale neighborhood.
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