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Marseilles to apply for $800K housing grant for homeowners · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Marseille to apply for eight hundred thousand dollars housing grant
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  Speaker 1: for homeowners. Written by Matthias Werner, This article is being
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  Speaker 1: The City of Marseille is looking to help a group
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  Speaker 1: of homeowners with grant funding opportunities. Connie Buchanan from the
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  Speaker 1: North Central Illinois Council of Governments appeared at a public
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  Speaker 1: hearing concerning the city's application for a Community Development Block
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  Speaker 1: grant from the Illinois Department of Economic Opportunity. The priority
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  Speaker 1: of this grant is to benefit senior citizens, persons with disabilities,
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  Speaker 1: and persons in the very low income bracket. Buchanan said.
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  Speaker 1: The eight hundred thousand dollars application for the housing Rehabilitation
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  Speaker 1: grant would aim to help approximately ten homeowners within the
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  Speaker 1: city limits. The city has received this grant in the past,
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  Speaker 1: Buchanan said, but never for this much money. Buchanan said
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  Speaker 1: the funds from this grant would be for construction, administration,
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  Speaker 1: and supervision of housing rehabilitation. The application is due August
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh, twenty twenty six, and Buchanan said that the
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  Speaker 1: response time on the results of the application ranges from
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  Speaker 1: six to eight months from that date, and the rehabilitation
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  Speaker 1: programs would be completed within twenty four months of receiving
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  Speaker 1: the news that the application was accepted. Buchanan presented the
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  Speaker 1: city's capital investments wished for public projects for funding. Although
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  Speaker 1: it is not the subject of the grant program, this
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  Speaker 1: list is something that each community maintains and basically just
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  Speaker 1: shows the state that if the community had money, then
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  Speaker 1: they would do these things. Buchanan said. The list, along
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  Speaker 1: with the presence of interested homeowners at Wednesday evening's meeting
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  Speaker 1: and participants in the previously taken income survey, gives the
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  Speaker 1: application more points or makes it more likely that Marseille
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  Speaker 1: receives the grant funding. This is a competitive grant, which
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  Speaker 1: is why we invited the homeowners that completed the eligible
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  Speaker 1: survey to be here, Buchanan said, because everyone in the
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  Speaker 1: state of Illinois is applying for this same grant, our
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  Speaker 1: role with NCICG and working with Marseille is to chase
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  Speaker 1: those points and make the strongest application possible. Use of
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  Speaker 1: the funds would be in line with the national goal
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  Speaker 1: from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which gives
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  Speaker 1: money through the state with the block grant program and
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  Speaker 1: target's load to moderate income individuals thirty to fifty percent
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  Speaker 1: of median household income.