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LCBH focuses its resources on the most needy and vulnerable low income tenant families with a concentration on parents with children under the age of 18, disabled tenants, or tenants with disabled family members. LCBH has been serving Chicago tenants for over 30 years! LCBH, founded in 1980 by a group of young attorneys in Rogers Park, today is recognized as a leading public interest law firm specializing in housing law and policy. LCBH believes thatLCBHbelievesthat rights andrightsandTRANSCRIPT
The mission of LCBH is to preserve safe, affordable
and accessible rental housing and advocate for
the rights of tenants.
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Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing Advocating for Chicago Tenants
LCBH At A Glance
LCBH has been serving Chicago tenants for over 30 years! LCBH, founded in
1980 by a group of young attorneys in Rogers Park, today is recognized as a leading public interest law firm specializing in housing law and policy.
LCBH provides advocacy, legal representation, supportive services, education
and outreach as a means of empowering tenants and preserving decent affordable housing in Chicago. Through these services, in the last year, LCBH provided much needed assistance to 4,730 client families, and impacted many, many more.
LCBH focuses its resources on the most needy and vulnerable low income
tenant families with a concentration on parents with children under the age of 18, disabled tenants, or tenants with disabled family members.
LCBH is the only full service legal program for tenants in foreclosed buildings. In 2011, over 70 volunteer attorneys, legal and social work interns and
volunteer paralegals donated approximately 7,600 hours to help tenants facing potential homelessness due to foreclosure, deteriorating building conditions and eviction.
LCBH believes that LCBH believes that
every person and every person and
family has a right to family has a right to
decent housing. All decent housing. All
renters are entitled to renters are entitled to
understand their understand their
rights and rights and
responsibilities and to responsibilities and to
have access to legal have access to legal
representation to representation to
ensure those rights.ensure those rights.
LCBH Services & Programs
100 West Monroe Street
Suite 1800
Chicago, Illinois 60603
You You can MAKE A
DIFFERENCEDIFFERENCE!!
Involvement of individuals
who wish to contribute
resources, ideas, time and
energy CAN make a
difference. LCBH depends
on volunteers to help
provide thousands of free
service hours to low-income
tenants each year, working
in court and in our office,
counseling & representing
tenants and monitoring
courtrooms.
Volunteers assist Chicago
tenants in protecting their
right to safe, affordable
housing. If you would like to
help LCBH continue its
effort, please call LCBH at
(312) 347-7600 or email us
www.lcbh.org
ATTORNEY OF THE DAY EVICTION DEFENSE PROJECT (AOD)
TENANTS IN FORECLOSURE PROJECT (TFIP)
AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRESERVATION PROGRAM (AHPP)
FAIR HOUSING
TAP works with tenants whose problems with their landlords are not yet in eviction court. Its goal is to resolve tenant landlord conflicts over code and ordinance violations, and emergency situations such as lockouts and utility shutoffs, if possible without litigation.
TENANT ADVOCACY PROJECT (TAP)
SUPPORTIVE SERVICES
The AOD Project provides no cost legal services to low-income families facing eviction who would otherwise have no legal representation. When tenants are not represented by an attorney, they are evicted 95% of the time on their first court date.
TFIP assists the innocent and often unseen victims of Chicago’s current foreclosure crisis – tenants living and renting in foreclosed buildings. TFIP provides information to tenants regarding their rights during foreclosure and aids in the preservation of affordable housing throughout Chicago.
AHPP works to maintain the supply of safe, decent and affordable rental housing by providing legal assistance to tenant groups living in unsafe building conditions. This is accomplished by informing tenants of their rights, negotiating with landlords and representing tenants in court or administrative hearings.
LCBH’s Fair Housing work includes representing clients in housing discrimination cases and heading up the Fair Housing Education Consortium, funded by the Chicago Department of Housing and Economic Development to provide fair housing training to landlords, tenants and the general public.
LCBH provides supportive services to our most vulnerable legal client families by helping them create a comprehensive plan to move from crisis to adequate housing, employment and financial stability. Supportive Services assists clients in this process by connecting them with the specific resources that can enable them to reach their goals and stabilize housing beyond the short term.
Many times, our intervention is the last defense
against homelessness