Keep Up the Action! End Illinois Housing Discrimination Based on Source of Income
10.20.21It's Day Two of the Illinois legislature fall veto session! Access Living's top priority is to pass House Bill 2775,...
Action Needed! Time to End Illinois Housing Discrimination Based on Source of Income
10.19.21Today, Illinois legislators begin our fall veto session! Veto session is a two week period each fall where our state...
Ford Foundation Launches First-Ever U.S. Disability Rights Program
10.15.21New YorkâThe Ford Foundation today announced the launch of its first-ever grantmaking program focused on advancing the rights of people...
Action Alert: Illinois Legislators Need to End Source of Income Housing Discrimination
10.13.21Access Living friends and allies, Next week, Illinois legislators will begin our veto session! Veto session is a two week...
Gov. Pritzker Eliminates the Sub-minimum Wage in State Contracting
10.05.21Governor Pritzker has ended, by Executive Order, the use of sub-minimum wages for people with disabilities employed by state vendors....
Access Living Statement on End of Illinois Eviction Moratorium
10.04.21Today, Governor Pritzker has ended the statewide eviction moratorium, causing homelessness and human suffering throughout Illinois. This will disproportionately negatively...
Action Alert: End Housing Discrimination Based on Source of Income
09.30.21If you live in Illinois, we need your help today to fight against Source of Income (SOI) discrimination in housing,...
Access Living Issues Public Comment: “Increased law enforcement is not a cure-all.”
09.16.21On Wednesday, September 15, 2021, Access Living Transportation Policy Analyst Laura Saltzman, spoke on behalf of the Transportation Equity Network...
Action Alert: Ensure Full Funding of HCBS in the Reconciliation Package
09.14.21Dear Access Living Friends and Allies, Today's action alert comes from NCIL concerning the money promised to Home and Community...
ACTION TODAY: Fight for SSI, Home Services Investment in Historic Congressional Budget Package
09.10.21Access Living friends and allies, Right now, Congress is working on two major bill packages of unprecedented national significance, especially...