$23 Million Renovation Moves Forward
The long-spanning Bristol Place redevelopment project got one step closer to completion Tuesday when the city council voted unanimously to approve the project’s $23 million first site plan. the News-Gazette
Public Housing News
Champaign HA to Search for New Executive Director
The Champaign County Housing Authority will conduct a national search to replace Executive Director Ed Bland, who is leaving at the end of July to take a similar job in Virginia. The News-Gazette
Aurora HA Director Heading to Alaska
Aurora Housing Authority Executive Director Keith L. Gregory is leaving the agency. He has accepted a job as president and chief executive officer of a public housing authority in Juneau, Alaska’s capital city, according to a statement from the Tlingit Haida Regional Housing Authority. Gregory’s last day at the Aurora Housing Authority was set for […]
Housing Authority Director’s Tough Decision to Leave
Ed Bland, the executive director of the Housing Authority of Champaign County since 2003, has been hired for the same position in Portsmouth, Va. News-Gazette.com
Negligent Oversight Cited
U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth wrote another letter to Housing and Urban Development’s investigatory arm, this time calling HUD’s “negligent oversight” of the housing authority “inexcusable” and asking that their probe include an evaluation of HUD’s interactions with the ACHA from 2010 to present. The Southern.com
Vermilion County Hosts Walk-In Clinics
DANVILLE – The Vermilion County Health Department’s Women, Infants and Children program will hold twice-a-month walk-in clinics at the Housing Authority of the City of Danville Office at 1607 Clyman Lane starting on May 16. The Independent News
Rockford HA Considers Redevelopment
A $15 million facelift will begin this summer at Orton Keyes. RRSTAR.COM
Housing Crisis – Sparks Fear
A government plan to tear down a crumbling public housing complex in the southern Illinois town of Cairo has sent roughly 200 families searching for new homes and sparked fears that the once-thriving river city could be coming to an end. US NEWS
Housing Authority Nearly Bankrupt
CAIRO — In a return letter, Housing and Urban Development Director Ben Carson tells the junior high students of Cairo that he is “so impressed” by their devotion to their hometown and thanks the children for writing to him — but he offers no concrete solutions for providing new affordable housing to keep their families […]
Housing Crisis Sparks Fears
A government plan to tear down a crumbling public housing complex in the southern Illinois town of Cairo has sent roughly 200 families searching for new homes and sparked fears that the once-thriving river city could be coming to an end. US News.com