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Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago (NHS) is a nonprofit organization working to create thriving, mixed-income neighborhoods of choice that all residents are proud to call home. 

Our mission is to create opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen their neighborhoods. 



We do this by: 

• Educating and preparing new homeowners for success
• Lending to help people buy, fix and keep their homes
• Sustaining homeownership through foreclosure intervention services
• Preserving, rehabbing and investing in housing
• Building powerful and enduring community partnership

Since 1975, we have:

• Served 245,315 families, 
• Loaned more than $675 Million to borrowers to buy, fix or keep their homes, 
• Educated 46,528 potential new home buyers, 
• Created 6,440 new homeowners, 
• Provided foreclosure counseling and education to 34,516 homeowners, 
• Saved 10,697 families from foreclosure, 
• Recovered/stabilized 1,975 troubled properties