Illinois Affordable Housing Primer

This document addresses many of the basic issues involved in affordable housing. It provides the reader with an understanding of both the issues and a variety of the solutions being implemented. The primer includes the following sections:What is Affordable Housing?Affordable Housing TerminologyThe Growing Illinois Housing CrisisAffordable Housing Initiatives Making a Difference Across the NationAffordable Housing Work

Making Rents More Affordable: The Rental Housing Support Program

The Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) and the Statewide Housing Action Coalition (SHAC), through the "It Takes a Home to Raise a Child" campaign, have proposed state legislation that creates a revenue stream to fund local rental subsidy programs throughout the state. Under this legislation, known as the Rental Housing Support Program, the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) would offer grants either to local administering agencies (local governmental bodies, local housing authorities, not-for-profit organizations) or to developers of affordable housing

For the Benefit of All: Strategic Recommendations to Enhance the State's Role in the Integration of Immigrants in Illinois (Joint Executive Summary, Year Two)

On November 19, 2005, before thousands of immigrants attending the Immigrant Justice Convention hosted by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) in Chicago, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich signed the landmark New Americans Executive Order. The Executive Order launched a unique public-private partnership to create a first-in-the-nation coherent, strategic, and proactive state government approach to immigrant integration. The Order recognizes the challenges and opportunities presented by Illinois' rapidly growing immigrant population. It views immigrants as economic and social assets, and calls on the State to focus strategically on how to realize their potential for the benefit of the entire state.Immigrants in Illinois play an important role in our state's economy, filling labor gaps at both the high-skill and low-skill ends of the job spectrum. In a shifting and increasingly globalized economy, Illinois immigrants from around the world can provide an important competitive advantage to the state.Yet, until now, neither Illinois, nor any other state, has developed a comprehensive immigrant integration strategy. Illinois is proud of its past leadership in this field, and it is our hope that the work of the New Americans Policy Council and the State's Interagency Task Force will provide guidance both to Illinois and the nation on the complex issues of governance with a diverse population of newcomers. Integrating newcomers and making the most of their potential as economic assets to our state will build social cohesion and benefit all Illinoisans.This document is the joint summary of the second year of the Executive Order project, published in 2008

2004 Report on Illinois Poverty: An Analysis of Rural Poverty

Rural Illinois is experiencing greater and greater declines in its well-being, growing barriers to economic viability and increasing disadvantage for economic and human development. 74 of Illinois' 102 counties are rural, non-metropolitan counties. Almost half of these rural counties have poverty rates higher than the state rate. **Limited job opportunity, limited access to health services, inadequate housing options, and declining populations perpetuate this rural poverty. This decline in regional development and growth is clearly linked to poverty populations facing poverty of housing, poverty of education, poverty of health, and poverty of opportunity. **This report examines population, economic, and basic needs issues in regions of Illinois, as defined by the Bureau of Tourism. These regions represent large areas of common demographic, economic, and geographic characteristics. Information on the South and Southwest regions of the state is highlighted, as they are disproportionately impacted by poverty. Data for each county in the state are included in the appendices

Creating Sustainable Funding for Affordable Housing in Illinois

For more than 30 years, the nation has been losing affordable rental housing for extremely low income households (those earning less than $16,000 a year nationally). Affordable housing is defined as housing stock available at 30 percent of a household's income. From 1993 to 2003, the inventory of these units plunged by 1.2 million. With losses to upgrading, abandonment, or demolition, currently there is a nationwide shortage of rentals affordable and available to low-income households of 5.4 million units.Currently, 30,000 units of assisted affordable housing in the Chicago area and nearly 70,000 units statewide are at risk of being lost to the private market by 2010

Due to State Budget Impasse More than $107 Million in Dedicated Funds for Affordable Housing Are Going Unused

As the state budget impasse nears its six-month mark, the State of Illinois has accumulated $107.8 million in 7 dedicated funds to create affordable housing and end homelessness according to a report released today. However, these funds -- such as the Illinois Affordable Housing Trust Fund and federal HOME Investment Partners Program funds -- cannot be spent without approval by the General Assembly and Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner. These 7 dedicated funds -- 6 state funds and one federal fund -- have their own revenue sources and are separate and apart from General Revenue Funds (GRF) collected from income taxes and other revenue sources. Spending these dedicated funds would not increase the state budget deficit. Based on the budget passed by the General Assembly in May 2015, the report estimates that resources from these dedicated funds and a small amount of GRF could:Fund programs serving the affordable housing needs of 172,350 people.Provide funding for 14,640 units of affordable housing.The programs not being funded include homeless prevention grants, emergency shelters and foreclosure prevention counseling. The housing units are primarily permanent supportive housing for people who were formerly homeless

The Drafting of the Housing Legislation

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Housing Initiatives in Illinois: Many Successes, A Long Road Ahead

A CCH policy brief that examines housing initiatives in the state of Illinois including: creating and preserving housing for people with the lowest incomes; removing barriers to developing affordable housing in the suburbs; ending discrimination and promoting open access to housing; and removing barriers to developing affordable housin

Functional genre in Illinois State Government digital documents

Provisions for collecting or archiving digital documents can be informed by knowledge of the genres of documents likely to be encountered. Although different aspects of collecting and curation may classify documents into genres based on differing criteria (e.g., size, file format, subject), this document addresses classification based on the functional role the document plays in state government, akin to (Toms, 2001), but here specifically Illinois State Government (ISG). The classifications listed herein are based on an overview of ISG digital documents, encountered in over nine years of gathering and archiving work with and for the Illinois State Library (ISL), and on discussions with practitioners in cataloging and in government documents librarianship. This report states definitions, and including examples of each such genre. State government documents are interesting in this regard in that they are presumably somewhat comparable to both federal government documents and business documents. Perhaps surprisingly, there are also portions of the State Web that are somewhat less than businesslike, either in tone or in technological proficiency of implementation. In this respect state government digital documents may also be useful approximations to documents produced either personally or by small activities. Having a list of government document genres can inform work in information promulgation (e.g., through website design, or the design of a series of printed materials), and the grouping of documents for digital library or archival purposes.Library of Congress / NDIIPP-2 A6075unpublishednot peer reviewe