SOUTH SUBURBAN HOUSING CENTER

Housing counseling program: primarily funded by multiple small dollar grants and fundraising activities. Includes the provision of the following comprehensive hud-certified housing counseling activities: individual one-on-one rental and homeless referrals; pre- and post-purchase homeownership counseling; mortgage delinquency and foreclosure counseling; as well as group counseling activities including home buyer workshops, financial literacy workshops and foreclosure assistance and mortgage fraud awareness workshops. For fiscal year 2024, counseling services were provided to 1,136 individuals and families, of which 165 were facing foreclosure, 459 seeking rental/homeless referrals and 187 seeking to purchase a home, resulting in 86 new homeowners and 62 homes saved through mortgage modifications. Over 325 individuals attended 24 workshops and webinars. In addition to the individual counseling services provided, as a partner agency for the illinois housing development authority's (ihda) court based renal assistance program (cbrap), which ran through june 2024, we directly assisted 133 renters and 26 landlords respectively, apply for these emergency assistance grants. Approximately 675 individuals attended two (2) in-person events, two hundred thirty (230) individuals attended three (3) webinars and over thirty-five thousand individuals (35,000) were informed of this rental assistance program through ongoing outreach emails and social media posts. The general characteristics of the clients we served, per our fy24 hud- 9902, are 85% racial minority and 87% below the 80% area median income (ami) threshold.