When taxes hit home
First, the median Illinois household saw a 38 percent hike in its effective property tax rate between the 2002-2004 and 2013-2015...
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SOUTH SUBURBAN MAYORS & MANAGERS ASSOCIATION
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SSMMA
- Sep 6, 2018
Sept 27: Municipal Fair Housing Training Workshop
The South Cook workshop is on Thursday, September 27th 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. at the South Suburban Housing Center: 18220 Harwood Ave., #1,...
SSMMA
- Aug 31, 2018
Cook County Prevailing Wage Advisory Task Force
SSMMA President and Hazel Crest Village Board President Vernard Alsberry The Prevailing Wage Advisory Task Force, created by the Cook...
SSMMA
- Aug 30, 2018
‘A perfect tax storm in the south suburbs’: Property tax breaks backfire on some homeown
The changes, however, also had an unintended consequence: Thousands of homes in south suburbs such as Harvey and Park Forest fell off the...
SSMMA
- Aug 20, 2018
Olympia Fields: One of the wealthiest and best-educated black-majority municipalities in the country
Olympia Fields has a black homeownership rate of 98 percent. It is one of only a handful of sizeable, majority-black communities in the...
SSMMA
- Aug 16, 2018
Aug. 24-25: NeighborhoodLift Launch Event
NeighborhoodLIFT provides eligible homebuyers with $15,000 to use toward down payment and closing costs on qualified homes. For veterans...
SSMMA
- Jun 22, 2018
July 2: 2018 Pre-filing Kick-off Tax Appeal Forum
Please share with your communities: WHAT: 2018 Pre-filing Kick-off Tax Appeal Forum with Commissioner Larry Rogers Jr. WHEN: Monday, July...
SSMMA
- Jun 21, 2018
Average second installment of Cook property tax bills to show increases
In the north Cook suburbs, residential tax bills are up by about 3 percent, and in the south suburbs by about 4.8 percent, according to...
SSMMA
- Jun 15, 2018
Housing Collaborative tackles the impact of unfair residential property taxes assessment practices
Even if homeowners wanted to find tax relief by moving to new communities, many can’t afford to do so. As written in a recent Crain’s...
SSMMA
- Jun 14, 2018
Regional Housing Solutions technical assistance is now available
Metropolitan Mayors Caucus (MMC) and its partners, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) and Metropolitan Planning...
SSMMA
- May 25, 2018
Property-tax-for-pensions plan would pummel Illinois homeowners
The proposed solution? Force Illinois homeowners, who already pay among the highest property taxes in the nation, to pay billions more...
SSMMA
- May 24, 2018
HUD awards Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant to Chicago Heights
City of Chicago Heights will kick-start a planning process to “transform” the city’s economically struggling Eastside-Downtown...
SSMMA
- Apr 26, 2018
Grant opportunity available for community-based supportive housing
The Illinois Housing Development Authority is now accepting applications under the Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Development...
SSMMA
- Apr 10, 2018
Homewood’s ahead of the curve on branding
Image courtesy of the Village of Homewood In a new comic-strip ad campaign, Homewood, Illinois, bills itself as a hip, diverse, urban...
SSMMA
- Mar 16, 2018
Chicago leads U.S. in underwater homes
At the end of 2017, more than 135,000 Chicago-area home borrowers owed more on the mortgage than the property was worth, according to a...
SSMMA
- Feb 26, 2018
SSMMA
- Feb 2, 2018
IHDA offers down payment assistance to homebuyers
Illinois Housing Development Authority; please share with your communities. Up to $10,000 in Down Payment Assistance Now Available...
SSMMA
- Jan 22, 2018
Park Forest Mayor John A. Ostenburg among experts addressing housing issues at Governor’s Conference
Park Forest will serve on a panel discussing the topic “Clean It or Lien It: Dealing with Vacant and Blighted Properties” as part of the...
SSMMA
- Jan 19, 2018
Governor presents plan to correct property-tax system flaw
Lawmakers who gain income from the status quo have little incentive to tackle meaningful property-tax reform, Rauner said. So, he is...
SSMMA
- Jan 11, 2018
Why more Chicago hospitals are getting into the housing business
More hospitals have sought details on how to launch such a program, including prominent Northwestern Medicine, said Stephen Brown,...
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