WIUM Local
(2009-01-20)
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The report did not necessarily paint the best picture of public housing in Knox County, leaving leaders of western Illinois housing authorities wanting to set the record straight.
Margie Hulick is the Executive Director of the Knox County Housing Authority, Don Tomlin is former Executive Director of the KCHA, and Bill Jacobs is the Executive Director of the McDonough County Housing Authority.
Hulick says in public housing in Knox County includes 1 high-rise with 2 towers of 189 units, 3 family sites with 190 units, and a high-rise unit in Abingdon with 51 units.
Tomlin says he has not actually had the chance to read the final report. When Tomlin was Executive Director of the KCHA, he presented the committee with a report, describing public housing in the county. Tomlin feels there was a misconception on how the voucher program for public housing actually works.
Hulick says she does not agree with the recommendations made in the report. She says the recommendations regarding housing were not founded.
Jacobs says he has been studying the influx of people coming from Chicago to Western Illinois for a number of years. He has been looking at the migration of persons living in poverty leaving the city, as a result in changes in local policy and the transformation of the Chicago Housing Authority.
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