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
The city of Rockford is considering creating a specialized police unit to patrol its public housing properties in an effort to combat crime and create a stronger relationship with residents. The News-Gazette
The Housing Authority of Joliet has announced that in partnership with TEC Services Consulting, they have scheduled the grand opening of the new computer lab at the Fairview Home’s community center. This new facility houses 16 computers that are available for resident use. Staff is present Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 2:30 PM, to […]
A federal court invalidated the East Chicago Housing Authority’s ability to do warrantless searches of residents’ apartments or have drug dogs check the hallways. Judge Joseph Van Bokkelen granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday against the East Chicago Housing Authority’s policy allowing staff to enter residents’ apartment without their consent or a warrant, and barring the […]
Two positions are now open on the Rockford housing authority board this comes after the city council votes to not reappoint Alice Jenkins and Ricardo Cervantes. WIFR.com
Suit claims low-income elderly residents assignedon basis of race, disability. Read more. ArkLaTexHomepage.com
Home tours were available to area residents and local dignitaries at the 14 homes built in Staunton, nine in Bunker Hill and 15 in Gillespie. The homes were built through a low-income housing tax credit created under the 1986 Tax Reform Act. It gives incentives for the use of private equity in the development of […]
Jackie Newman, executive director of the Springfield Housing Authority, said the agency’s newest residential development, The Villas at Vinegar Hill, is on schedule to be moved into by the end of the year. State-Journal Register
A federal proposal aimed at alleviating housing segregation faces resistance from an unlikely source: the Chicago Housing Authority, which worries that the move could hurt, not help, poor people who live in subsidized housing. Chicago Real Estate Daily
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