Good News Partners Purchases 27 Unit Building for the Homeless in Chicago
Good News Partners, a faith based organization in East Rogers park, has purchased a 27 unit building to create affordable housing for the homeless.

CHICAGO, IL, March 17, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Good News Partners (GNP), a faith based community organization, will now provide affordable housing for an additional 27 families.

"For families crammed into a single room occupancy units or in shelters, this building secures, long term, another step from homelessness to home ownership" says Ronn Frantz, executive director of GNP.

On average, according to Ronn, Good News Partners has to turn away 10-15 persons per week who approach them for shelter. "For 35 years, Good News Partners has been in this neighborhood, working to end homelessness and hopelessness. We want Chicago to be known worldwide as the city where there are no homeless people".

During the last year and a half, $600,000.00 was raised as a down payment for the new building, located at 1546 Jonquil Terrace. A building fund has been created to pay the remaining $600,000. For more information, please visit our website. Donations may be mailed to:

Jan Hubbard

1600 W. Jonquil Terrace

Chicago, IL 60626

jan@goodnewspartners.org

773-764-4998

OPEN HOUSE: Thursday, March 24th from 3:00pm-6:00pm GNP will be celebrating the purchase of the new building. Refreshments will be served at 1600 Jonquil Terrace and a walk to the new building for a tour

About Good News Partners

http://www.goodnewspartners.org

Good News Partners' mission has remained constant: "To end homelessness and hopelessness with all God brings us; to foster justice and to build bridges of reconciliation." Good News Partners is a faith-based community organization that strives to bring about conditions in which hope, justice, responsibility, and reconciliation flourish in Chicago's East Rogers Park North of Howard neighborhood. GNP provides affordable housing for otherwise homeless families with a step-by-step transition from interim housing to independent living. Our housing options include

► New Life Interim Housing, a 32-bed shelter for otherwise homeless women and their children;

► a large single room occupancy (SRO), the Jonquil Hotel, accommodating 58 families;

► 2nd stage and GNP subsidized rental housing; and

► 40 units of co-operative housing affordable for families with low and very low income.

In addition Good News Partners has created programs to support children and youth to grow in their social, academic and personal capability. Together, the GNP community works to create an empowering nurturing environment so positive changes in education and family dynamics can take place in the lives of the children and their parents.

Press Release Contact Information:

Michelle Ely
Good News Partners
Public Relations Mgr.
1600 West Jonquil Terrace
Chicago, IL
USA 60626
Voice: 773-764-4998
Website: Visit Our Website