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Kankakee City committee hears housing program progress; residents urged to start storm-relief applications with United Way/KCCSI
Summary
At its April 6 meeting, the Kankakee City Community Development Committee reviewed housing-program progress — including reductions in long wait lists and HUD-funded work — and staff directed residents seeking immediate storm-relief to apply with United Way funds administered locally by KCCSI. Staff warned funding deadlines could put some projects at risk.
The Kankakee City Community Development Committee on April 6 heard a detailed departmental report on housing programs and was directed to existing, locally administered emergency funds for residents affected by recent storm damage.
Alderman Behren opened the meeting and turned the departmental report to Barbara Brew Watson, who told the committee the office is managing 23 housing projects in progress and has been steadily reducing long wait lists. "We started with over 200 people on our wait list when we closed it last year," Watson said, "and so we're moving through that — we're already at 160 for our general wait list and then the lead program… we're now down to 80." She added the lead program currently has eight projects in progress and completed six during the last fiscal year after the city added additional lead…
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