Cindy Wojdyla Cain Columnist June 29, 2008 JOLIET — Last fall, Khara Uczen’s life was turned upside down in an instant. "The doorbell rang," Uczen recalled. "I went to the door. It was a beautiful day. There was a...
buildingcommunityassets_6-2008_woodstock_0.pdf Marva Williams, Principal Investigator Sarah Duda and Tom Feltner, Co-Authors This report details the partnership process and lessons learned from a two-year technical assistance program designed to help community organizations partner with mainstream credit unions with the goal...
Stephen Franklin Tribune Reporter June 22, 2008 Rosa Mobley never imagined her debts would swell so large. There were times when the 66-year-old widow, who struggles by on Social Security and her pension as a school crossing guard in...
Ms. Rand joins Woodstock Institute after 12 years at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law in Chicago, most recently as the supervising attorney of the Center’s Community Investment Unit. In this position, Ms. Rand advocated for and...
Recent research by the Woodstock Institute shows that in 2007 alone, over 35 percent of the foreclosures in the City of Chicago, or over 4,822 foreclosure filings, were on small multi-family properties. Depending on the number of units in...
Adrian Burns June 13, 2008 Payday lenders are probing how they can continue making lucrative short-term loans in Ohio, despite a state law meant to curtail their business. Since controversial House Bill 545 first cleared the state House of...
Ashley Gross June 06, 2008 A new study shows that Chicago renters, not just owners, are losing their homes due to foreclosures. Woodstock Institute, a group that researches housing policy, crunched the 2007 foreclosure numbers in Chicago. It discovered...
Shannon Buggs June 2, 2008 ANOTHER sign of the broke-down economy: more crime. When a neighborhood has 2.8 foreclosures for every 100 owner-occupied properties in a year, violent crime in the immediate area goes up 6.7 percent, according to...