About Us

Housing Choice Partners (HCP) of Illinois, Inc. is a leader in building housing mobility strategies that provide real options, resources, and support for families with rental subsidies to access financial, educational, and health opportunities.

Mission

Housing Choice Partners aim to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty and promote racial and economic diversity in housing.

History

Housing Choice Partners (HCP) is a private non-profit organization created in 1995 by the Chicago-area fair housing community. Initially, HCP worked to promote racial and economic diversity in the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program in suburban Cook County. Fair housing advocates noted extreme concentrations developing in where HCV-supported households resided, primarily in high-poverty, racially-concentrated communities of color, and the group sought to resolve the problem.

The solution was a housing mobility program for the Housing Authority of Cook County. HCP operated the program for eight years and assisted over eight hundred families with moving to low-poverty, well-resourced neighborhoods.

Today, HCP serves the City of Chicago and suburban Cook County. We assist over 1,200 low-income households each year who are interested in learning more about their housing choice and where they may be able to root their family for long-term stability.

HCP has contributed to building a more inclusive housing market by fostering stronger, more diverse communities.

We invite you to join us on social media and help us continue our programming by donating today!