Five years in: What the ‘Home Illinois’ plan reveals about the state of homelessness
The Illinois Department of Human Services released a report meant to serve as a roadmap.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Wasted waters: How Southern Illinois is coping with decades of sewage flooding
Cahokia Heights in Southern Illinois has been battling chronic sewer overflows for years with little or no success.
‘Granny flats’ may be the answer to affordable housing in Chicago — but they’re illegal
Chicago may allow widespread building of carriages houses, or accessory dwelling units, as an answer to the affordable housing crisis.
Feds pull grant funding from Illinois fair housing orgs that investigate discrimination
Fair housing nonprofits in Illinois say the Trump administration’s recent termination of grants will drastically reduce their capacity to investigate ...
“All our future money is gone”: The impossible task of providing child care in rural Illinois
Though the governor promised to make Illinois “the best state” to raise young children, child care continues to disappear.
Federal government releases $21.6 million to Illinois public housing authorities
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is providing $21.6 million in CARES Act funding to 68 public housing ...
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