A household must earn $17.17 per hour working full time (40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year) in order to afford the fair market rent for a 2-bedroom apartment. Even in Illinois, where the state minimum wage exceeds the federal minimum wage, a family must work 2.2 jobs to afford a home.
Publications
Jane Addams Hull House Association drafts publications on a variety of topics ranging from our visionary foster care program to our work addressing current public policy issues. The publications below are examples of our work:
Neighbor to Neighbor Foster Care Handbooks - This 8-book series is a comprehensive guide to our model of sibling foster care. They are available for purchase in our store.
Keeping a Roof Over Their Heads: Low Income Working Women & Affordable Housing (March 2008) - This paper explores issues of housing, gender, and race for low-income working families and makes recommendations for bettering the status of the working poor, especially women and their children.
Minding the Gap: An Assessment of Racial Disparity in Metropolitan Chicago
In 2003, Hull House conducted a groundbreaking study to examine how seven quality of life measurements (income, wealth & employment; education; housing, transportation; health; the lives of children and the criminal justice system) affect the everyday lives of Chicagoans.
We conducted this research not only to educate the public about the racial and economic "gaps" in Chicago, but also to help community leaders identify complex problems and ultimately eliminate the barriers between the region's "haves" and "have-nots."
Minding the Gap: An Assessment of Racial Disparity in Metropolitan Chicago (November 2003
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Highlights
The Neighbor to Neighbor Handbooks
This collection of eight handbooks is intended to be a comprehensive and practical guide to the Neighbor to Neighbor model of sibling foster care. Available for purchase in our store.