By Joe Ragusa
NORMAL – A group of community organizations, like Marcfirst, the Baby Fold and LifeCIL, have studied the issue of affordable housing over the last year in McLean County.
“The League of Women Voters charged our housing study group to look at housing in our community,” Marcfirst CEO Laura Furlong said. “When we started looking at it, we really came up with three issues that surfaced consistently: affordable housing in our community, supportive housing and permanency of housing.”
The League of Women Voters is putting its support behind finding a solution to the problem.
“Anything that comes up in the arena of affordable housing, we’re going to weigh it against what we’ve agreed on tonight,” League of Women Voters of McLean County director of program positions Maureen O’Keefe said. “If it fits our position, we can go out and take a variety of actions.”
O’Keefe said the task now is figuring out how to tackle the problems. Part of that solution involves coordinating efforts with community groups and helping those groups secure resources, like state and federal funding, to address any housing issues.
Joe Ragusa can be reached at [email protected].
