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La Salle provides housing rehabilitation grant update · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Lasal provides housing rehabilitation grant update. Written by Matthias Werner.
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  Speaker 1: This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. Lasal's next housing rehabilitation opportunity could
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  Speaker 1: be right around the corner. Kurt Betty, Lasal's Economic development director,
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  Speaker 1: provided residents with an update on the status of the
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  Speaker 1: city's current housing rehabilitation grant cycle at a recent Sacil
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  Speaker 1: City Council meeting. Beti clarified where the city is in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the current homes being rehabilitated, what the city's
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  Speaker 1: role in the process is, and when the next cycle
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  Speaker 1: could be available for residents. So far in that process,
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  Speaker 1: we have accomplished three of those homes out of the ten,
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  Speaker 1: bet I said. The Housing Rehabilitation grant, worked on through
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  Speaker 1: the North Central Illinois Council of Governments, is a community
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  Speaker 1: development block awarded through the state Illinois Department of Economic
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  Speaker 1: Growth and Development from the federal government Department of Housing
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  Speaker 1: and Urban Development. LaSalle was awarded six hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars from this grant program in twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 1: for ten homes. Beti clarified that the city never sees
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  Speaker 1: any of the money from this program and that the
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  Speaker 1: North Central Illinois Council of Governments takes care of the process.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pass through NCICG, works through us and the state.
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  Speaker 1: They let us know that a project has been completed
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  Speaker 1: and we sign off on it. But I said, then
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  Speaker 1: they NCICG turned that into the state and then they
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  Speaker 1: get reimsursed, so we never see any of the money.
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  Speaker 1: We just approve that the spending is taking place. With
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  Speaker 1: seven homes left to complete in this housing rehabilitation grant cycle,
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  Speaker 1: Bedai said that he anticipates being ready to apply for
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  Speaker 1: another ten home rehabilitation next year, but that can depend
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  Speaker 1: on many factors. With the current slate of homes, depends
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  Speaker 1: on what work actually needs to be done. One house
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  Speaker 1: can vary from another. He said this was mainly to
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  Speaker 1: fix whatever safety or hazardous needs were there for the
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  Speaker 1: people who live there. Following the completion of the ten
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  Speaker 1: homes selected for the twenty twenty three grant, Betty will
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  Speaker 1: apply again on behalf of the city of Lasal and
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  Speaker 1: work with the North Central Illinois Council of Governments to
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  Speaker 1: secure additional opportunities for Lasal residents. Once this one gets
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  Speaker 1: finished up, we can apply for that again. Bedai said,
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  Speaker 1: I would anticipate next year for more homes, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if it'll happen. It just kind of depends
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  Speaker 1: on where we are in our current grant. When the
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  Speaker 1: City of Lasal does reapply for the Housing Rehabilitation grant,
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  Speaker 1: the funds could exceed the six hundred fifty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: awarded for this cycle. Third ward alderman John doc Lavieri
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  Speaker 1: mentioned that Marseillese had recently applied for the grant in
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  Speaker 1: the amount of eight hundred thousand dollars and asked if
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  Speaker 1: Lasal could receive the same benefits the next time I'm around.
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  Speaker 1: Once these homes are done, we can reapply and if
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  Speaker 1: we're lucky enough, they'll still have that rate at eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars. But I said