February 2, 2021
Aldermen in the Maple City approved a pair of rehabilitation grants for businesses in the city’s Downtown Tax Increment Finance (TIF) District.
The two businesses are Meks on Main and Tin Cup, both are located on Main Street in Monmouth. Tin Cup was awarded $2,111 while Meks on Main was awarded over $17,095.
City Administrator Lew Steinbrecher tells WGIL that the grants are for the structural or core systems in a building.
“Something to do with tuck-pointing to preserve the bricks or replacing the roof, replacing a furnace or a new electrical system to upgrade the building. Those are the types of structural or core system costs that are eligible under that program.”
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Bob Palmer, policy director at Illinois Housing Action, said supportive housing is critical to helping those who need services attached to their accommodations to be a successful tenant. (Shutterstock)
Illinois vulnerable residents will have new options for supportive housing soon, thanks to a $40 million grant from the Illinois Housing Development Authority to fund the development of new permanent supportive residences.
A subset of affordable housing, the Permanent Supportive Housing Development Program provides a place to live as independently as possible for individuals, including those transitioning from institutions, at risk of homelessness or with substance-abuse issues, a
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Bob Palmer, policy director at Illinois Housing Action, said supportive housing is critical to helping those who need services attached to their accommodations to be a successful tenant.
$40M from IHDA aims to help vulnerable Illinoisans maintain housing by Elyse Kelly, The Center Square | February 01, 2021 02:00 PM Print this article
Illinois’ vulnerable residents will have new options for supportive housing soon, thanks to a $40 million grant from the Illinois Housing Development Authority to fund the development of new permanent supportive residences.
A subset of affordable housing, the Permanent Supportive Housing Development Program provides a place to live as independently as possible for individuals, including those transitioning from institutions, at risk of homelessness or with substance-abuse issues, a
Bob Palmer, policy director at Illinois Housing Action, said supportive housing is critical to helping those who need services attached to their accommodations to be a successful tenant.
Despite an eviction moratorium in Illinois, Luz Franco, 51, says she was nudged into leaving her apartment late last year after she got COVID-19 and missed work, which led to a late rent payment. She lost heat in her unit and some of her belongings were found on the front lawn.
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When Luz Franco got sick with COVID-19, she missed work and knew she wouldn’t have the money to pay the rent on her apartment in Brighton Park.
Franco, 51, figured she could give what she had to her landlord until she was able to catch up.
But she says the landlord said she was a year behind on rent, and soon she found the heat had been turned off in her apartment, and one day her son found some of their belongings on the front lawn.
Illinois’ vulnerable residents will have new options for supportive housing soon, thanks to a $40 million grant from the Illinois Housing Development Authority to fund t