(The Center Square) – A group of Illinois county clerks is raising questions regarding funding for a rental housing support program. Fees collected on documents filed through the Recorder of Deeds offices are intended t.
by Kevin Bessler, The Center Square | May 06, 2021 12:00 PM Print this article
A group of Illinois county clerks is raising questions regarding funding for a rental housing support program.
Fees collected on documents filed through the Recorder of Deeds offices are intended to go toward grants through the Rental Housing Support Program and distributed throughout the state. But a report from the Illinois Housing Authority found 68% goes to the Chicago area and some downstate counties receive little or nothing.
Now there is
legislation in Springfield that would double the document fee from $9 to $18.
Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman said the report shows that between 2014-2016, $166,620 of grant revenues was distributed back to central Illinois counties, compared to $2.4 million reported collected during that time by central Illinois clerks for the program.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. If the proposed Illinois House Bill 3878 passes through the Senate, all documents filed through any recorder of deeds office would increase from $9 to $18.
The money collected by recorder of deeds offices goes directly into the state’s Rental Housing Support Program.
What that program does, Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman said, seems like a secret.
“We’ve requested over the past several years [to know] where this revenue is going,” Ackerman said. “We never have been able to get from the State of Illinois a clear answer as to allocation of where all this funding is going.
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