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The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


An aerial view of Evanston. A wide street runs down the middle with many cars passing through. The street is paved black, the surrounding buildings are brown.

Housing and Community Development Committee discusses contract renewals, affordable housing

January 19, 2022

Evanston’s Housing and Community Development Committee approved recommendations of renewals for two city housing-related contracts on Tuesday, which will be sent to City Council.  The city split...

City makes plans to consolidate committees

April 8, 2016

Evanston officials are developing plans to consolidate the city’s many committees, commissions and boards to reduce bureaucratic delays. The process, which began in January, is set to reduce the...

Sarah Flax, Evanston’s housing and grants administrator, works with the community housing issues. Flax helped construct a plan for the allocation of next year’s federal funds to housing and other urban improvements.

City plans for more delays to next year’s federal housing development funding

November 18, 2015

A city committee voted Tuesday to recommend a plan to allocate federal funding for housing and other urban improvements to City Council, despite concerns for a recurrence of delays in delivery of the funds....

Sarah Flax, housing and grants administrator; April Jacobs, grants and compliance specialist; and Gary Gerdes, building and inspection services division manager, discuss the Housing and Community Development Act Committee updates to the Community Development Block Grant. Some of the changes aim to make the application process clearer for low- and moderate-income applicants.

Evanston introduces changes to housing rehabilitation program

February 18, 2015

Evanston received increased federal funding for community development and will implement changes to streamline its housing rehabilitation program, city officials said Tuesday. At the Housing and Community...

Carl Caneva, the city’s assistant director of the health department, speaks in front of city staff Monday. Officials met at the first Human Services Funding Summit meeting to discuss better ways to allocate funding to public services.

Evanston officials talk changes to grant process

November 4, 2014

City officials discussed Monday revising the funding allocation and application process for two grants that support Evanston agencies and social services. Members of the Human Services Committee, the...

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