Safe and Healthy Living provides immigrant families with cost-friendly, culturally and linguistically informed resources in the areas of legal, housing, food, and mental health, plus strategies to help prepare for uncertain times.

Investments in our state’s Latino communities are investments in everyone that calls Illinois home. And policies that promote equity for Latinos in education, housing, and immigration, are essential to the promise of making Illinois the “best state to raise a family.”

A comprehensive guide for immigrant communities about their rights as tenants, accessible housing resources, and landlord responsibilities and obligations.

In Illinois, growth in the Latino population between 2010 and 2021 ensured that the state’s overall population did not decline more dramatically than 1%. Two-thirds of Latinos in the state were born in the United States. 72% of adults and 96% of those under 18 years of age are US…

The Latino community is not a monolith. Accordingly, Latino wealth should be examined from all angles, taking into consideration Latinos’ differentiating factors, such as racial diversity, immigration status, migration timing, geography, generational differences, and how these factors correlate with wealth-building. The Latino Policy Forum and Brookings Institution partnered to examine…

More than 50% of Illinois’ Latino population lives in the suburbs. The Latino Policy Forum, in partnership with The Metropolitan Planning Council and UIC’s Great Cities Institute, produced a new analysis of challenges and opportunities facing Latinos living in suburban communities.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6-cnWS6mSY

Undoubtedly, the COVID-19 pandemic, including “long COVID,” has created extensive and profound negative impacts on populations across the US AND devastated the health landscape in many ways, including over 96 million diagnosed cases leading to over one million deaths in just two years. At the same time, COVID has created…