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The Home for Good Coalition formed to respond to the housing struggles faced by people in Illinois who have been incarcerated or those who are exposed to high rates of violence.
For years discrimination and housing policies have prevented thousands of people with arrest and conviction records from securing stable, safe housing and the support services needed to fully reintegrate to their community. The ripple effects of this kind of marginalization devastate both individuals and communities.
Reentry organizations around the state have designed and implemented housing support programs to respond. Pilot projects have shown that recidivism declines when people have housing supports. Housing opportunity changes lives, saves tax dollars and makes Illinois communities stronger.
Home for Good (HB3162 and SB2403) was filed this spring in the Illinois General Assembly. The legislation would expand existing housing supports for people who have been incarcerated and those engaged or working at community violence intervention programs. Home for Good is an opportunity for all of Illinois to flourish.