Become a Friend of HIP
Join our Community of Supporters
Volunteer with projects and events, refresh an apartment, help to host, plan and/or execute a fundraiser
Provide pro bono services, including legal counsel, dental work, or educational development
Advocate for affordable housing, particularly for very low and low-income workers
For your next party or event, ask guests to make a donation to HIP in lieu of a gift
Ask your club or organization to consider HIP for a community service project
Pledge to decorate a room at one of our apartments
Use your unique talents and ideas to support HIP
Suggested Reading
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City
By Andrea Elliott
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
By Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By Matthew Desmond
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
By Seth M. Holmes
Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago
By Laurence Ralph
It’s Not Like I’m Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World
By Jennifer Sykes, Kathryn Edin, Laura Tach, and Sarah Halpern-Meekin
Savage Inequities: Children in America’s Schools
By Jonathan Kozol
Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City
By Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson
The Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the Nation’s Poor Children and Families
By Janet Currie
By Amartya Sen
By Angus Deaton
Poor Economics: Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
By Abhijit Banerjee & Ester Duffle
Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities
By Ruby K. Payne, Philip DeVol & Terie Dressi Smith
Race for Profit: How Banks and Insurance Companies Undermined Black Homeownership
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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