City Council voted 6-1 to approve a $3 million allocation of American Rescue Plan Act funding to support the renovation of The McGaw YMCA’s Men’s Residence on Monday. “Our goal is to continue to support a key constituency of our residents in our city as we have done for 137 years,” McGaw YMCA Board Chair.
Evanston’s Planning and Development Housing Subcommittee met Wednesday evening to discuss implementing a rental licensing program in the city. The program would make it necessary for landlords to obtain a license before they can rent out property. At the moment, a city ordinance requires annual registration for residential rental properties that are single family homes,.
The 2020 Affordable Housing Plan Steering Committee highlighted some barriers to affordable housing in Evanston at Tuesday’s Housing and Human Development Committee meeting. The barriers included inaccessible home ownership prices, prohibitive repair costs and excessive single-occupancy housing units. Half of all households in Evanston earn less than $75,000 per year, the steering committee found. That.
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