Lakeside's service area has a wide variety of rental housing opportunities. Our rental program works to help individual homeseekers locate and secure quality rental housing within our service area that is safe, decent, and affordable. We do this through education, individual counseling, outreach, and collaborations with landlords and real estate professionals who are critically important as the primary suppliers of rental housing opportunities. On this page, you can find information about our services, with links to additional information, resources, and downloads.

Lakeside’s counselors can:

• Provide group education sessions in the form of workshops and seminars on a wide variety of topics. 
• Engage in individual counseling. These sessions are conducted face-to-face at our offices. If you are in need of individual rental housing. counseling, please use our online request form to submit your question. A member of our staff will then contact you.
• Provide information on available subsidized and non-subsidized apartment including listings provided on Lakeside's website.
• Help you conduct a housing search using online and print resources.
• Provide information on applying for an apartment, move-in checklists, and help to negotiate a lease.
• Resolve landlord-tenant disputes.
• Advocate with you to protect your rights under the Chicago Landlord-Tenant Ordinance and applicable federal, state, and local fair housing ordinances.
• Provide information on rental assistance programs, including how to apply for cash assistance.
• Work with you to improve your credit and money management skills.

Lakeside is participating in the nationwide initiative called the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP).   This Program provides comprehensive housing, employment, social service counselling and housing-related financial assistance for persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. The program is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Under the program, households can apply for cash assistance to meet short term housing expenses.

Lakeside CDC is partnering with Housing Opportunities for Women to implement HPRP services on Chicago's north side. Information on eligibility and how apply for HPRP is available by calling 311.  Applicants are encouraged to contact Lakeside first, that way its counsellors can ensure applicants receive rental counselling through Lakeside's rental housing program, even if they are not eligible under HPRP.

Lakeside does not currently manage apartments of its own, but it does maintain relationships with many property management firms and apartment search companies.

For more information on our rental housing services, please contact Bibian Guevara, Rental Housing Advocate, at (773) 381-5253.