Our Mission

Chicago House empowers persons living with or vulnerable to HIV/AIDS to lead healthy and dignified lives through housing and compassionate, client-centered support services.

Our Vision

Chicago House aims to play a critical role in eliminating new infections and Getting to Zero by 2030 and believes that housing is essential to ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Building on decades of service, Chicago House celebrates 40 years of responding to the needs of those impacted by HIV/AIDS in Chicago in 2025. A passionate group of activists founded Chicago House in 1985 at the height of the AIDS epidemic, and as our understanding of HIV and the needs of those impacted by the virus have changed, so have our services.

Annually, we serve more than 3,000 individuals in Chicago across four mission-critical pillars of housing, health, employment support, and the TransLife Care program. In 2020, Chicago House unveiled our new strategic vision, priorities, and plan that aligns us with the Getting to Zero Illinois movement and carries us through 2030.

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