To create opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen their neighborhoods.
Educating and preparing new homeowners for success
Lending to help people buy, fix and keep their homes
Sustaining homeownership through foreclosure prevention services
Preserving, rehabbing and investing in housing
Building powerful and enduring community partnerships
NHS is a nonprofit neighborhood revitalization organization committed to helping homeowners and strengthening neighborhoods throughout Chicago & Elgin. Neighborhood Lending Services (NLS), an NHS-affiliated corporation, is Illinois’ largest nonprofit lender for homeowners and new home buyers.
Whether you are interested in free homebuyer education classes, a fixed-rate loan to buy a home, would like to fix up your home, or are trying to save your home from foreclosure, NHS has the expert help you need.
Served more than 182,000 families,
Loaned $495 Million to borrowers to buy, fix or keep more than 29,000 dwelling units,
Educated more than 28,000 potential new home buyers,
Built or rehabbed and then sold more than 600 affordable homes,
Provided foreclosure counseling and education to more than 8,300 homeowners,
Saved more than 2,300 families from foreclosure,
Reclaimed 610 vacant ‘problem’ properties.
