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Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing Advocating for Chicago Tenants
The mission of LCBH is to preserve safe, affordable and accessible rental housing and advocate for the rights of tenants.
LCBH believes that every person and family has a right to decent housing. All
LCBH At A Glance
renters are entitled to
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.
understand their rights and responsibilities and to have access to legal representation to ensure those rights.
LCBH Services & Programs ATTORNEY OF THE DAY EVICTION DEFENSE PROJECT (AOD) 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.
You can
TENANTS IN FORECLOSURE PROJECT (TFIP)
MAKE A DIFFERENCE! 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
100 West Monroe Street Suite 1800 Chicago, Illinois 60603
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.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRESERVATION PROGRAM (AHPP) 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.
TENANT ADVOCACY PROJECT (TAP) 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.
FAIR HOUSING 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.
SUPPORTIVE SERVICES 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