ASHINGTON – (RealEstateRama) — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that it is charging the Trumbull Metropolitan Housing Authority in Warren, Ohio with violating the Fair Housing Act by denying the reasonable accommodation requests of a family that includes a father and daughter with severe disabilities. Real Estate Rama.com
Construction will begin soon in Mahomet on a new affordable housing project aimed at senior citizens. The News-Gazette
Aldermen tonight agreed to create a new Rockford Police Department unit that will primarily patrol Rockford Housing Authority properties. RRStar.com
Comcast and the Rockford Housing Authority recently announced the expansion of Comcast’s Internet Essentials program to more than 5,300 households assisted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Rockford and Winnebago County. Journal Standard.com
DANVILLE – Danville Housing Authority officials are looking at another intergovernmental agreement with the Vermilion County Housing Authority to work together — but not combine — the two separate housing authorities. Commercial-News
COLLINSVILLE — The 13th of 13 Madison County Housing Authority complexes is being reborn, with 13 new residential structures rising on the old Northgate Homes site in Collinsville. The Telegraph.com
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) — A nearly $1 million plan could soon become a reality for Rockford Housing Authority residents as city council votes tomorrow for a special Rockford police unit that would patrol RHA properties. “We are just as much a victim as anybody else,” said Fairgrounds resident Sesheta Whittier. WIFR.com
MT. VERNON — The Mt. Vernon Housing Authority has hired Gloria Williams as its new executive director. Williams was most recently deputy executive director for the Champaign County Housing Authority. She will start her new position in Mt. Vernon Nov. 1. Register News.Com
CHAMPAIGN — After repeatedly emphasizing the difficulty of the decision, Champaign City Council members voted 8-1 to allow city staff to craft a pre-development agreement with a partnership of the Affordable Housing Developers Consortium and the Housing Authority of Champaign County to be the master developer for the city’s Bristol Place project. The News-Gazette.com
ROCKFORD — The city’s mayor is responsible for appointing people to serve on more than 100 city boards and commissions, and roughly a third of those seats are either vacant or filled by members whose terms expired months or even years ago. RRStar.com
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