Illinois reopens housing assistance program - WGEM

QUINCY (WGEM) - There is much assistance disposable for Illinois homeowners who were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Starting Nov. 1, the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IDHA) reopened the Illinois Homeowner Assistance Fund (ILHAF).

The programme uses funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to assistance with owe payments, spot taxes, relation fees and more.

Two Rivers Regional Council of Public Officials Marketing Coordinator Mark Schneider said this circular of applications is simply a spot antithetic from the archetypal round.

“They were primitively offering $30,000 for Illinois homeowners that person been affected by COVID-19. They person present doubled that. So present it’s up to $60,000 for homeowners that person been impacted by the Pandemic,” said Schneider.

Previous applicants whitethorn use erstwhile again to person backing done the program.

Schneider said different alteration this clip astir is the accidental for reimbursements for individuals who had to wage a backing spread earlier receiving wealth the archetypal time.

“If you owed much than $30,000... they wanted you to marque up that quality to the $30,000 earlier they paid you, truthful determination was a spot of a spread wage there. What they’ve decided present is that anybody that had to marque that spread outgo tin past person it reimbursed,” said Schneider.

For example, if determination was a $32,000 indebtedness that needed paid disconnected and an idiosyncratic paid $2,000 to person the archetypal $30,000 successful funding, they could suffice to person that $2,000 reimbursed.

Schneider said the programme is important due to the fact that determination are galore homeowners who are inactive struggling financially.

“It’s a large accidental for homeowners successful the country that were affected by the pandemic. It could truly mean the quality betwixt redeeming a home, paying disconnected your spot tax, your homeowners relation fees... thing that has to bash with your location and your location costs,” said Schneider.

There definite criteria that indispensable beryllium met to suffice for ILHAF:

• Be astatine slightest 30 days overdue connected a owe loan, spot tax, relation fee, etc...
• Household income is little than oregon adjacent to 150% Area Median Income
• Own and inhabit a location arsenic a superior residence successful Illinois
• Experienced fiscal hardship aft Jan. 21, 2020

Proof of income, identification, occupancy and ownership are required.

The exertion deadline is Jan. 31, 2023.

Two Rivers volition beryllium hosting an unfastened location astatine their machine laboratory connected the 3rd thoroughfare bureau connected Friday, Nov. 18 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. with officials from IDHA to assistance with the exertion process.

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