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Public Act 097-0952
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| HB4615 Enrolled | LRB097 17928 KTG 63700 b |
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AN ACT concerning housing.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Rental Housing Support
Program Act is |
amended by changing Section 15 as follows:
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(310 ILCS 105/15)
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Sec. 15. Grants to local administering agencies. |
(a) Under the program, the Authority shall make grants to |
local
administering agencies to provide subsidies to landlords |
to enable the
landlords to charge rent affordable for |
low-income tenants. Grants shall also
include an amount for the |
operating expenses of local administering agencies.
On an |
annual basis, operating Operating expenses for local |
administering agencies shall not exceed 10% for grants under |
$500,000 and shall not exceed 7% for grants over $500,000. If a |
grant to a local administering agency covers more than one |
year, the Authority shall calculate operating expenses on an |
annual pro rata share of the grant. If the annual pro rata |
share is $500,000 or less, then the fee shall be 10%; if the |
annual pro rata share is greater than $500,000, then the fee |
shall be 7%.
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(b) The Authority shall develop a request-for-proposals |
process for
soliciting proposals from local administering |
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agencies and for
awarding grants. The request-for-proposals |
process and the funded projects must
be consistent with the |
criteria set forth in Section 25 and with
additional criteria |
set forth by the Authority in rules implementing this Act.
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(c) Local administering agencies may be local governmental |
bodies, local
housing authorities, or not-for-profit |
organizations. The Authority shall
set forth in rules the |
financial and capacity requirements necessary for an
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organization to qualify as a local administering agency and the |
parameters for administration of the grants by local |
administering agencies.
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(d) The Authority shall distribute grants to local |
administering agencies
according to a formula based on U.S. |
Census data. The formula shall determine
percentages of the |
funds to be distributed to the following geographic areas:
(i)
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Chicago; (ii) suburban areas: Cook County (excluding Chicago), |
DuPage County,
Lake County, Kane County, Will County, and |
McHenry County; (iii) small
metropolitan areas: Springfield, |
Rockford, Peoria, Decatur, Champaign-Urbana,
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Bloomington-Normal, Rock Island, DeKalb, Madison County, |
Moline, Pekin,
Rantoul, and St. Clair County; and (iv) rural |
areas, defined as all areas of the State not specifically named |
in items (i), (ii), and (iii) of this subsection. A geographic |
area's
percentage share shall be determined by the total number |
of households that
have an annual income of less than 50% of |
State median income for a household
of 4, as determined by the |
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and that are |
paying more than 30% of their income for rent. The geographic |
distribution shall be re-determined
by the Authority each time |
new U.S. Census data becomes available. The
Authority shall |
phase in any changes to the geographic formula to prevent a
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large
withdrawal of resources from one area that could |
negatively impact households
receiving rental housing support.
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Up to 20% of the funds allocated for rural areas, as defined in |
this subsection, may be set aside and awarded to one |
administering agency to be distributed throughout the rural |
areas in the State to localities that desire a number of |
subsidized units of housing that is too small to justify the |
establishment of a full local program. In those localities, the |
administering agency may contract with local agencies to share |
the administrative tasks of the program, such as inspections of |
units.
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(e) In order to ensure applications from all geographic |
areas of the
State, the
Authority shall create a plan to ensure |
that potential local
administering agencies have
ample time and |
support to consider making an application and to prepare an
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application.
Such a plan must include, but is not limited to: |
an outreach and education plan
regarding
the program and the |
requirements for a local administering agency; ample time
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between the
initial
notice of funding ability and the deadline |
to submit an application, which
shall not be less than 9
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months;
and access to assistance from the Authority or another |
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agency in considering
and preparing the application.
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(f) In order to maintain consistency for households |
receiving rental housing
support, the Authority shall, to the |
extent possible given funding resources available in the Rental |
Housing Support Program,
continue to fund local administering |
agencies at the same level on an annual
basis, unless the |
Authority determines that a local administering agency is not
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meeting the criteria set forth in Section 25 or is not adhering |
to other standards set forth by rule by the Authority.
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(Source: P.A. 94-118, eff. 7-5-05.)
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