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from the Spring Newsletter. We need the people who need affordable housing
Press Conference and Rally March 18, 2005
A standing-room only crowd of residents of affordable housing, members of the press, and representatives of area agencies came to show support and hear speakers on current issues and legislation concerning affordable housing. Speakers at the event included Mary Ellen Durbin, Executive Director of the Peoples Resource Center; the Rev. Melody Eastman, senior pastor at St. Paul's Lutheran Church; Jerry Lee, vice president and chief human resources officer for Central DuPage Hospital; Damon Schroeder, director of church relations for World Relief; Sandra Pihos (R-42), State Rep. Paul D. Froehlich (R-56), and DuPage County Board member Debra Olson of Wheaton.  The DuPage Housing Action Coalition is a broad-based grassroots coalition of over 40 organizations advocating for affordable and fair housing in DuPage County. For more information or questions, e-mail bwalsh@peoplesrc.org For articles on affordable housing, click here 
Glendale Heights Village Trustee Edward Pope holds the first ground broken at the Lippert Pointe site while Village President Linda Jackson and CHAD Executive Director Bob Wahlgren look on. Pope said he was pleased about the new affordable housing project in his district and looked forward to its completion. 
22 September 2004 CHAD receives DuPage Community
Foundation General and Environmental Grant
Villa Park—Community Housing Association of DuPage is one of forty-two not-for-profit organizations in DuPage County to receive a grant this year from the general and environmental grant programs of The DuPage Community Foundation based in Wheaton, IL. The grant, awarded at a special breakfast on Wednesday 1 September at the Glen Oaks Country Club in Glen Ellyn, will help underwrite the Minimum Rent Program. Community Housing Association of DuPage, located in Villa Park, is dedicated to providing and advocating for quality, affordable housing for low and moderate income persons. This grant funds the Minimum Rent Program, a subsidized program where tenants pay the greater of half the fair market rent in DuPage County or thirty percent of their monthly income. Community Housing Association of DuPage also rents units through the Sliding Scale Rental Program and also accepts the Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8) at all their units. For further information regarding Community Housing, please contact Maria Sanchez at 630.993.9530. Established in 1986 with the help of The Chicago Community Trust, the DuPage Community Foundation is a publicly-supported 501 (c) (3) organization to which contributions are tax deductible. The Foundation was created to benefit the people of DuPage County and receives contributions and bequests into a permanent endowment from individuals, corporations, organizations, and foundations wishing to make lasting contributions to the people of DuPage. The earnings on these funds are then used, in accordance with donor wishes, for the Foundation’s grant-making and community leadership activities. The DuPage Community Foundation’s purpose is to raise the quality of life throughout DuPage County by developing and channeling philanthropy to meet the emerging, changing, and ongoing needs of the people of the County. Based on the American virtues of volunteerism and philanthropy, the Foundation fosters a legacy of support for the people of DuPage by making grants to not-for-profit organizations working in the arts, civic affairs, education, environmental affairs, health, and human services. For further information about the Foundation or to arrange future media opportunities, please contact Michael Sitrick, development associate, at 630.665.5556 or visit http://www.dcfdn.org/. Articles on affordable housing: Click here for "Coalition calls for more affordable housing here," a story by Jim Harris for the Glen Ellyn News: http://chicagosuburbannews.com/story.php?pub=&sid=6291 "On the road with homeless in the suburbs:
The down-and-out struggle to get from shelter to shelter and, for some, to jobs" By Crystal Yednak for the Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/jobs/news/chi-0503200231mar20,1,7297465.story Click here for "Affordable Housing Law Deadline looms" by Crystal Yednak and Courtney Flynn, Tribune staff reporters http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0504010257apr01,1,7313512.story?ctrack=2&cset=true Click here for "Ordinance Targets Affordable Housing" by Janice Newmann for the Chicago Tribune:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/southsouthwest/chi-0504010244apr01,1,3089430.story?ctrack=3&cset=true Click here for "Kane urged to tackle affordable housing,"
by William Presecky, Tribune staff reporter http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0503240319mar24,1,4149185.story Click here for "Kane sees squeeze as its population is heading skyward, "By William Presecky, Tribune staff reporter: http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/newhomes/chi-0504020257apr02,1,2438663.story | 
