HOUSING SERVICES


HOUSING COUNSELING SERVICES

HANA Center’s HUD-certified counselors provide one-on-one counseling, workshops, and referrals to support limited English-speaking Korean Americans and multiethnic immigrants to obtain and maintain affordable housing and work toward achieving long-term housing goals. Focus areas include rental, pre-purchase, post-purchase, foreclosure prevention, budgeting/financial management, and assisting older adults to apply for public housing.

Please call our main office 773-583-5501 or email housing@hanacenter.org to inquire about housing counseling.

HOUSING WORKSHOPS

The following workshop topics will be available at HANA Center in 2024:

  • Financial Capability Workshop - Learn how to develop a budget, manage your money, reduce your debt, and increase your credit score to improve your finances and achieve your housing goals.

  • Rental Workshop - Learn about affordable housing, types of subsidized housing, tenant rights and responsibilities, eviction process and prevention methods, and other rental resources.

  • Foreclosure Prevention Workshop (Co-sponsored by Korean American Bar Association) - Learn about the foreclosure process and timeline, your rights as a homeowner, loss mitigation options with your mortgage servicer, avoiding foreclosure, and repairing after foreclosure. Guest speaker Attorney Soo Yeon Lee.

Workshops will be held in either English, Spanish, and/or Korean and we will provide both online (Zoom) and in-person (HANA Center Chicago office - 4300 N. California Ave., Chicago, IL 60618) options throughout the year. More workshop dates and options will be added to our schedule in the future.

Court-Based Rental Assistance Application Help

The Illinois Court-Based Rental Assistance Program (CBRAP) provides funding to Illinois tenants and landlords across Illinois who have pending cases in eviction court. The program is only available to litigants in eviction court. Applicants may qualify for up to $10,000 in emergency rental payments that can include up to 15 months of past-due rent and 2 months of future rent payments to prevent eviction

**APPLICATIONS CLOSE MAY 31, 2024!**

Please call our main office 773-583-5501 or email housing@hanacenter.org for CBRAP information and application assistance.

Fair Housing psa

HANA Center is proud to partner with National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development to show that #FairHousing is #MoreThanJustWords! Check out this PSA for our  communities, in English and 15 AAPI languages!