Housing Action focuses its training and technical assistance efforts on the delivery of professional tools and resources to non-profit developers and housing counselors, throughout the state of Illinois, so they may do their jobs better.  Please refer to this page for useful links relating to the community development field, and specific sites that may be useful for developers and housing counselors. 

Listed below are links to websites that provide resources for professionals in the field of affordable housing and community development:

http://www.knowledgeplex.org/

http://www.housingfinance.com/

http://www.fanniemaefoundation.org/programs/hpd.shtml

Illinois’ source for policy initiatives surrounding issues of affordable housing in Illinois:

http://www.housingactionil.org/policy-advocacy/index.html

For reliable sources for research on planning and community development that helps to preserve the supply of affordable housing in Illinois for low and moderate-income households:

http://www.woodstockinst.org/

http://www.metroplanning.org/

http://www.huduser.com

http://www.jchs.harvard.edu

Find foundation grants or private donors to fund your programs!

http://www.donorsforum.org/

http://foundationcenter.org/

http://www.guidestar.org/

Illinois’ source for government:

http://www.ihda.org

http://www.hud.gov/local/index.cfm?state=il

http://www.ilga.gov/

http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/

http://www.idfpr.com/

http://www.usa.gov/

Become a Housing Action Member and save on training fees!

http://www.housingactionil.org/membership/form.html

Attention Housing Developers!

Housing Action Illinois helps to increase the supply of affordable housing in Illinois by providing training and technical assistance to non-profits who develop, own or sponsor affordable housing. To request technical assistance click: http://www.housingactionil.org/training-technical/pages1-11/index05.html

Basic information for prospective non-profit developers:

http://www.dallasfed.org/ca/pubs/breaking.pdf

What is a CHDO (http://www.housingactionil.org/training-technical/pages1-11/index09.html) and how does my organization become one?  Click here!

http://www.housingactionil.org/training-technical/pages1-11/index20.html

Further CHDO resources available here:

http://www.ncdaonline.org/CHODOToolbox.pdf

For information regarding non-profit capacity building:

http://vppartners.org/learning/reports/capacity/capacity.html

Where can I learn more about housing finance?

http://www.nfconline.org/main/about/index.htm

http://www.iff.org/

http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/affordablehousing/training/homefront.cfm

http://www.comcon.org/pubs/publist.htm

http://www.lisc.org/resources

http://www.enterprisefoundation.org/resources

http://www.ruralhome.org/index.htm

http://www.ncsha.org

www.stlouisfed.org/community/selfstudy

For more information on technical assistance and training opportunities for housing developers, please contact Katie Gottschall at katie@housingactionil.org

Attention Housing Counselors!

Housing Action helps to promote sustainable homeownership in Illinois by creating training opportunities and direct technical assistance for professional housing counselors that promote high quality standards and service delivery. To request technical assistance click: http://www.housingactionil.org/training-technical/pages1-11/index05.html

Now, Illinois housing counseling professionals have a place to network
with one another online! Using Google Groups, housing counselors can post
questions, share resources, swap tools and techniques of the trade and
update one another of upcoming events.

Contact heather@housingactionil.org to receive an invitation to join.

Become a HUD approved agency!

http://www.housingactionil.org/training-technical/pages1-11/index10.html

For more information on REACH Illinois and Employer Assisted Housing visit:

http://www.reachillinois.org/

Check the status of anti-predatory lending legislation SB1167, formerly known as HB4050: https://www.hb4050info.com/Public_Web/privacy.aspx

Learn more about effective methods of homeownership counseling:

http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/publications/homeownership/libho01-4.pdf

Find general information on downpayment assistance:

http://www.americandreamdownpaymentassistance.com

Perhaps your organization would like to “endorse” or “adopt” NISHEC’s national housing counseling standards:

http://www.nw.org/network/newsRoom/pressReleases/2007/netNews050907.asp

For more information on technical assistance and training opportunities for housing counselors, please contact Heather Hain at heather@housingactionil.org.