Housing Matters! Online

The Shriver Center, in collaboration with several other housing rights groups, has launched an e-advocacy website to mobilize Illinois residents and help them make their voices heard on important affordable housing issues. The site—HousingMatters.net—enables individuals to get involved and play an integral role in the policy process through quick, effective, and direct contact with decision makers.

Housing Matters! gives vital information, updates, and alerts to its members on both state and federal housing issues. Through e-alerts and form letters, it allows the constituents of elected representatives to voice their support of positive housing legislation or opposition to detrimental policy making. With the legislative session just beginning, and important issues such as protecting individuals from source-of-income discrimination and creating the state’s first rental housing support program moving in Springfield, this mobilizing advocacy tool could not have come at a better time.

Signing up as a member takes only a couple of minutes, and responding to e-alerts is quick and easy. Individuals register with their home address and information, so that their elected officials are notified of their affordable housing concerns as constituents. Members should expect only one or two e-alerts a month. To sign up as a member of Housing Matters! and take action to support quality, fair, accessible, and affordable housing in Illinois, visit http://housingmatters.net.