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)
“Whether in the field of health, education or welfare, I have put my emphasis on preventive rather than curative programs and tried to influence our elaborate, costly and ill- co-ordinated welfare organizations in that direction. Unfortunately the momentum of social work is still directed toward compensating the victims of our society for its injustices rather than eliminating those injustices.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)