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ECDA reports 235-household rehab wait list, lead-abatement delays and ARPA-funded MIRA progress
Summary
ECDA staff reported a 235-household wait list for housing rehab, a 94-household lead-abatement wait list, ongoing contractor recruitment and program completion goals for multiple housing programs during the Jan. 6 Community Development Committee meeting.
Barbie Watson and Maya Pedicue presented the Economic and Community Development Agency (ECDA) departmental report to the Kankakee City Council Community Development Committee on Jan. 6, outlining housing-rehab workloads, lead-abatement delays, ARPA-funded projects and demolition activity.
“We have 38 housing rehab projects in various stages of our process in progress right now,” Watson said, listing projects by ward: eight in the 1st Ward, 11 in the 2nd Ward, 0 in the 3rd Ward, six in the 4th Ward, 13 in the 5th Ward, four in the 6th Ward and four in the 7th Ward. Watson said the ECDA wait list for housing rehab projects includes “235 City of Kankakee residents.”
Watson described lead-abatement capacity constraints: “We have 8 projects in progress right now... On this wait list for this program alone, for lead issues, we have 94. We have not completed a project in lead since May of 2024.” She attributed the backlog to staffing certification requirements and a limited pool of lead-certified…
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