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

at info@lcbh.org.

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