Tenants in Foreclosure Intervention Project
Tenants in Foreclosure Intervention Project (TFIP) focuses exclusively on the issues facing tenants living in buildings in foreclosure. TFIP provides:
- Legal representation for tenants in foreclosure;
- Counseling for tenants in foreclosure about their options and information about relocation options, as needed (see our new informational brochure for tenants and instructions for determining if your building is in foreclosure)
- Foreclosure early warning system designed to identify, map, and share key pieces of information about recently filed foreclosures on multi-unit buildings with our community partners who can then use the information to perform direct outreach with impacted tenants.);
- Training and ongoing support to community organizations to help them address issues related to tenants facing foreclosure
Last year, our Tenants in Foreclosure Intervention Project served 493 renters facing foreclosure, held 68 workshops with 1,271 people in attendance and distributed over 4,000 foreclosure brochures.
2010 Chicago Foreclosure Report Banks Avoid Foreclosure Laws, Uproot Renters: A Call for Enforcement of Tenant Protections
2011 Chicago Foreclosure Report Three Year Impact Assessment: Apartment Building Foreclosures and the Depletion of Rental Housing in Chicago
Watch a video created by Northwestern University students at Medill about what happened to one Chicago tenant after a foreclosure sale.
For information about tenant rights during foreclosure, download one of our brochures:
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English Version |
