Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago
Address: 3601 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60651
Our Mission
To create opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen their neighborhoods.
We do this by:
- Educating and preparing new homeowners for success
- Lending to help people buy, fix and keep their homes
- Sustaining homeownership through foreclosure prevention services
- Preserving, rehabbing and investing in housing
- Building powerful and enduring community partnerships
The Door to Your Future is Wide Open!
NHS is a nonprofit neighborhood revitalization organization committed to helping homeowners and strengthening neighborhoods throughout Chicago & Elgin. Neighborhood Lending Services (NLS), an NHS-affiliated corporation, is Illinois’ largest nonprofit lender for homeowners and new home buyers.
Whether you are interested in free homebuyer education classes, a fixed-rate loan to buy a home, would like to fix up your home, or are trying to save your home from foreclosure, NHS has the expert help you need.
Since it began in 1975, NHS has:
- Served more than 182,000 families,
- Loaned $495 Million to borrowers to buy, fix or keep more than 29,000 dwelling units,
- Educated more than 28,000 potential new home buyers,
- Built or rehabbed and then sold more than 600 affordable homes,
In 2012-2013, NHS:
- Served more than 7,000 families,
- Loaned $19 Million to borrowers to buy, fix or keep their homes,
- Educated more than 2,100 potential new homeowners,
- Saved over 900 homeowners from foreclosure, and
- Created more than 280 new homeowners.
Click here for Humboldt Park Neighborhood Profile.