The national average income per household receiving assistance from a housing authority is approximately $12,000 a year, but in Champaign County the
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With a budget of $600,000 the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission Weatherization program often can be overlooked. However, it helps many lo
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Communities eligible for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding in the City of Urbana has increased, meaning the money available cannot mee
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Some unlikely advocates have emerged in the fight to lift a 1997 ban on rent control in Illinois – manufactured home owners who are upset with th
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The development of student apartments in Champaign-Urbana has not slowed down over the past five years, despite two separate federal housing analyses
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If a low to moderate income family wants to get subsidized housing in Champaign County, they will need to go to the waiting room. As of November, the
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Ed Bland, the executive director of the Housing Authority of Champaign County, was hired in the same position in Portsmouth, Virginia, last week.
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At the Housing Authority of Champaign County, the first thing an applicant for housing must learn is to wait, especially when it comes to the Housing
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CHAMPAIGN-URBANA: Since the housing market crashed in 2007, the cities of Champaign and Urbana have received more than $2 million in state and federal
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Each year, Champaign spends $20,000 from its Urban Renewal Fund to demolish about two nuisance properties. David Oliver, code compliance manager, sai
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