Mark Swartz is the Legal Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing (LCBH) in Chicago, IL. Mark supervised the startup of LCBH’s Tenants in Foreclosure Intervention Project (TFIP) in 2008 and is one of the principal authors of LCBH’s annual Tenants in Foreclosure Reports. Under Mark’s supervision, LCBH represents tenants in building court, forcible entry and detainer court, and chancery court. Mark graduated cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School. While in law school, Mark worked as an intern for Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson at the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He also gained housing experience by volunteering with the Tenant Resource Center in Madison, WI, for which he was on the Campus Advisory Board, and by working as a legal intern for the Rural Legal Trust Project at the Wits Legal Clinic through an exchange program with the University of the Witwatersrand,  Johannesburg, South Africa.

Mark can be contacted at (312) 347-7600 x520 or mswartz@lcbh.org.