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Affordable Housing Scorecard for Illinois General Assembly Members, 2003-2008

Housing Action Illinois has completed an analysis of how members of the Illinois General Assembly voted on key housing legislation.

Click here to download the report as a PDF file.

For each bill, legislators are evaluated as to whether they voted with the position Housing Action Illinois supported, or against the position Housing Action Illinois supported. Votes supporting the position Housing Action Illinois favored are marked with a “Yes”. Historical voting records are based on 38 votes on housing-related issues between 2003 and 2008.

Top Scoring Legislators

Top scoring legislators, listed in alphabetical order, are those who scored high enough to have had a 100% voting record and nine sponsorship points. This identifies the legislators in the top 15% of their peers on votes supporting affordable housing.
(* Denotes no longer in office.)

Senate
Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
Sen. M. Maggie Crotty
Sen. John J. Cullerton
Sen. Miguel del Valle*
Sen. Mattie Hunter
Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
Sen. Terry Link
Sen. Iris Y. Martinez
Sen. Michael Noland
Sen. Barack Obama*
Sen. Kwame Raoul
Sen. Jeffrey M. Schoenberg
Sen. Donne E. Trotter

House of Representatives
Rep. Daniel J. Burke
Rep. Annazette Collins
Rep. Marlow H. Colvin
Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie
Rep. Monique D. Davis
Rep. William Davis
Rep. Kenneth Dunkin
Rep. Sara Feigenholtz
Rep. Calvin L. Giles*
Rep. Deborah L. Graham
Rep. Julie Hamos
Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez
Rep. Constance A. Howard
Rep. Elga Jefferies*
Rep. Robin Kelly*
Rep. Elaine Nekritz
Rep. Harry Osterman
Rep. Milton Patterson*
Rep. Cynthia Soto
Rep. Arthur L. Turner
Rep. Eddie Washington
Rep. Karen A. Yarbrough
Rep. Wyvetter H. Younge*