311 Foreclosure Prevention Programs

The City of Chicago and Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) of Chicago pioneered the 311 Foreclosure Prevention Program as a consumer counseling and information service which helps homeowners at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure, credit counseling and advocacy services.

Recently, the cities of Baltimore, and Dallas started similar programs to assist at-risk homeowners and protect the integrity of their neighborhoods.

Famous quotes containing the words prevention and/or programs:

    “... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.”
    —Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

    “Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
    —Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)