The Northwest Side Community Development Corporation was created in 2018 to address the economic development concerns of the Belmont Cragin neighborhood — a low-to-moderate income community with nearly 80,000 residents, of whom 80% are Latinx. 

The Belmont Cragin Quality of Life Plan, developed in 2015, revealed major needs around affordable housing and businesses & jobs. More than 600 residents and 30 local institutions worked on this community plan to create strategies for responding to these needs; one such strategy was to start the Northwest Side Community Development Corporation. 

Since its creation, Northwest Side CDC (NWSCDC) has grown from an organizing agency with a housing focus to a direct service provider with three programmatic areas: rental counseling, business development, and economic and cultural place keeping. 

As an organization incubated by the Northwest Side Housing Center, NWSCDC builds upon a fifteen-year mission of responding to the needs of the community.

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