Community Investment Corporation
Jose Ramos is an experienced professional currently serving as the Associate Board President for Urban Initiatives, which focuses on empowering Chicago's youth through sports and play. In addition, Jose has been a Senior Acquisitions Analyst at Community Investment Corporation since October 2017, where prior roles included Acquisition Analyst and Woodlawn Community Development Associate. Jose's early career featured a Public Policy Fellowship at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, with placements in the US Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence. Educational credentials include a Master of Science in Real Estate from Roosevelt University and a BA in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, alongside studies in Fine Arts at Accademia Italiana-Arcadia.
Community Investment Corporation
COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION, Chicago's Multifamily Rehab Lender, is a nonprofit providing mortgage financing to buy and rehab apartment buildings with five units or more in the 6-county metropolitan Chicago area. Since 1999 over 14,000 landlords and managers have completed CIC property management training to help them better market, manage and maintain affordable rental property. CIC also provides below-market financing for multifamily energy improvements in the Energy Savers program. Since 1984 CIC has loaned over $1.2 billion for acquisition and rehab of over 2,200 buildings with 58,000 units. In 2012 CIC received the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.