Open Communities

Open Communities | 253 followers on LinkedIn. Fair housing support and education for Chicago's North Shore. | Open Communities, founded by religious and civic organizations in 1972, is a private, not-for-profit, Chicago-area agency dedicated to promoting inclusive and diverse northern suburbs. Open Communities is rooted in the civil rights movement of the 1960s when a group of local women organized the North Shore Summer Project to protest housing discrimination. Open Communities provides direct service to persons with housing needs through fair housing discrimination investigation, foreclosure prevention and anti-predatory lending counseling, landlord/tenant advice, and the facilitation of Homesharing matches; and acts as the primary north suburban organizer and advocate for the preservation and expansion of fair and affordable housing.