All-Chicago Tenants Union: Tenant union organizing tenants in the war on landlords. This past summer, the union launched the People’s Cooling Army, a mutual aid effort to distribute free air conditioners to neighbors who needed them. [Website] [IG]
Autonomous Tenants Union: Autonomous Tenants Union is an all-volunteer organization committed to organizing for housing justice from below and to the left. As an independent collective based in Chicago, we strategize together to defend and enforce the right to dignified housing. [Website] [IG]
Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance (CAFHA): CAFHA is a membership-based nonprofit, fair housing organization serving the Chicago Region. Their mission is to combat housing discrimination and promote equitable place-based opportunity through education, advocacy, and collaborative action. [Website] [IG]
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness: CCH builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right. [Website] [IG]
Chicago Housing Justice Coalition: The Chicago Housing Justice Coalition is fighting to end no-fault evictions in Chicago. [IG]
Chicago Union of the Homeless: CUH works to end homelessness and poverty, for the human right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, for social and economic justice for all. [IG]
Chicago Union of Tenants: Autonomous tenants union organizing the West Side of Chicago. [IG]
Chicago Tenants Movement: Chicago Tenants Movement is a collaborative network of tenant organizations and housing organizers from across the city working to keep neighbors in their homes and build tenant power for the long haul. They help renters build democratic tenant unions that act as mutual aid and solidarity networks between neighbors and defend against undignified living conditions, utility shut offs, rent hikes, and evictions. [Website] [IG]
Coalition for a CBA: We are the Obama Community Benefits Agreement Coalition, of organizations from across Chicago. To stop displacement, we have introduced a CBA ordinance to Chicago’s City Council. The Obama Presidential Center is coming home! This can help build the kind of communities that Obama fought for, OR it could displace longtime residents. Let’s push back on being pushed out by outlining a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) around the Obama library, to require that jobs be set aside for people in communities around the Obama presidential center, protect housing for working families, low incomes, and home owners support and create Black businesses strengthen neighborhood schools. [Website] [IG]
Communities United: Communities United (CU) is a survivor-led, intergenerational racial justice organization in Chicago. At the heart of CU’s organizing is the development of grassroots leadership to build collective power to achieve racial justice and transformative social change. With this approach, CU focuses on advancing affordable housing, health equity, education justice, youth investment, immigrant rights, and shifting resources from the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems into restorative justice alternatives. [Website] [IG]
East Lake Tenants Union: Founded in 2021, the Eastlake Tenants Union is a member- controlled grassroots organization of tenants organizing to improve the quality of life in all Eastlake buildings through empowering tenants on their rights, organizing tenants to take action to improve building conditions, and mobilizing tenants to take ownership over their buildings through collective cooperative ownership. [Website] [IG]
Grassroots Collaborative: Grassroots Collaborative builds power with working families through strategic community-labor organizing, grassroots leadership development, civic engagement, and training. Their 9 member organizations and 125,000 members, along with an effective and diverse set of ally organizations across movements, create transformative change to win fully funded resources for our public schools, social services, and affordable housing that working families depend on. [Website] [IG]
Humboldt Park Resident Action Committee: Organizing for tenants, unhoused community members, and workers in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. [IG]
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs Housing & Economic Justice Committee: JCUA organizes people and resources to advance racial and economic justice. JCUA works in collaboration with directly impacted communities to transform unjust systems and bring material improvements to people’s lives. Their Housing & Economic Justice Committee advocates for solutions to homelessness and for progressive taxation and distribution of resources. [Website] [IG]
La Villita Housing Co-op: La Villita Housing Coop is a newly formed scattered site housing coop in the Little Village neighbor of Chicago. Their focus is getting housing back into the hands of the community and finding a pathway to home ownership for people with low incomes and disabilities. [Website] [IG]
LiftTheBan Coalition: The Lift the Ban Coalition advocates for economic well-being and stability for Illinois’ families through repealing the Rent Control Preemption Act of 1997, and establishing rent control for Illinois residents. [Website] [IG]
LUCHA: LUCHA advances housing as a human right by empowering communities – particularly the Latino and Spanish-speaking populations – through advocacy, affordable housing development, and community building. LUCHA works with community residents to access housing products and services, provide housing counseling, and coordinate technical assistance. Engaging in this work led LUCHA to develop subsequent buildings using green construction, Passive House, and integrated health and wellness programming. [Website] [IG]
Lunt Tenants Association: Organizing body for tenants organizing for improved conditions in housing managed by Winnemac Properties in Rogers Park and other areas. [IG]
Metropolitan Tenants Organization: The Metropolitan Tenants Organization is a membership organization made up of tenants, tenant organizations, community members and groups who support the mission of MTO. They educate, organize, and empower tenants to have a voice in the decisions that affect the affordability and availability of safe, decent & accessible housing. [Website] [IG]
North Spaulding Renters Association: Socialist tenants union organized against M. Fishman & Co. [Website] [IG]
Not Me We: Organizing Black & brown, poor & working class folks to grow people power and win resources in South Shore & beyond through tenant unions, mutual aid, youth organizing and more. [IG]
Open Communities: Open Communities makes the Chicagoland area more welcoming for all by investigating and enforcing fair housing practices, preventing eviction and foreclosure through free housing counseling, and fighting housing discrimination through education and advocacy. Their goal is to advance the economic empowerment of those most marginalized while holding communities and institutions accountable for discriminatory policies. [Website] [IG]
People for Community Recovery: PCR advocates for and supports Chicago’s South Side residents around environment, public health, housing, and equity issues. [Website] [IG]
Skokie Neighbors for Housing Justice: A grassroots community group committed to housing for all. [Facebook]
Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP): STOP builds the power of low-income and working Black residents — in Woodlawn, Greater Grand Crossing, and surrounding neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago — to impact the forces and decisions that affect our lives. They organize communities around preservation and improvement of affordable housing, a Community Benefits Agreement for the Obama Presidential Center, the reopening of shuttered mental health centers and empower students in organizing around the issues they choose. [Website] [IG]
Uptown People’s Law Center: UPLC advocates for prisoners, tenants, and disabled people denied public benefits. [Website] [IG]
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