-
Illinois is starting to award grants to renters to help them catch up on late payments. But the need far outpaces the funding available and more than 50...
-
‘A Bed Is Not A Bed Is Not A Bed’: Building Up Child Welfare System To Deal With Looming Crisis Not A Simple Task
-
Illinois’ new infrastructure plan has money set aside to help residents secure affordable housing across the state. This is the first capital plan in 10...
-
Affordable-housing advocates are joining the chorus calling on Illinois lawmakers to approve an infrastructure plan.
-
In the course of reporting my previous story on the gap between wages and the cost of housing, I spent time following a case manager with the Southern...
-
The Quad Cities are divided by the Mississippi River along the Illinois-Iowa border. They all took a big hit during the 1980’s farm crisis, and were...
-
Project Rebound is a non-profit organization that looks for single family homes in Galesburg that can be bought, renovated, and then sold for $60,000 or…
-
In Illinois, somebody being paid minimum wage would have to work 99 hours a week to afford the average two-bedroom apartment. That means an individual...
-
In places where the unemployment rate is well below the national average — states such as Iowa, Nebraska, and Colorado — one would think it would be…
-
The Macomb Community Development Committee is developing a city-wide inventory of every residential property, looking specifically at their compliance…