Joining Forces recently expanded into Lake County, and is advocating for affordable housing in the following ways:

Supporting Live Well Lake County coalition 

Joining Forces for Affordable Housing's Associate Director of Lake County, Liz Nelson, is the co-chair of Live Well's Housing Action Team  

Objectives: 

1. Educate and influence levers of change about affordable housing. 
2. Assess gaps in current housing system and build a model for a comprehensive “dream” system for coordinated entry to use for buy in and advocacy for affordable housing. 

Building county-wide and local Joining Forces for Affordable Housing (JFAH) chapters; progress to date: ​

JFAH – Lake County 

Co-chairs: Matt Hickey (Libertyville resident and housing/planning expert), Liz Nelson (Gurnee resident and Connections for the Homeless staff) 
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First meeting upcoming in September 2025

JFAH – Gurnee 

- Established January 2025 and created steering committee 
- Held three workshops on affordable housing solutions and effective advocacy 
- Developing advocacy action plan ​

Next meeting on 8/13 from 6:30p-7:30p, location TBD ​

JFAH – Libertyville 

Kick-off meeting
6-7:30PM
July 29
Advocate Condell Conference Center

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