Affordable Housing

Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation soon plans to turn Cahokia Heights properties where derelict homes were once boarded up into a new low-income housing development called Vivian’s Village.

Because officials currently lack a good count of the number of short-term rentals operating in the city, the exact amount of revenue that could be raised by the fee is unknown.

Since April 2023, the project concentrated along the 3600 and 3700 blocks of Hebert Street has rehabilitated 10 homes and newly constructed eight.

A machine to build the first new home in Illinois’ southernmost city in 50 years.

St. Louis' Prop NS funds help North Grand Neighborhood Services take on a giant task — one house at a time.

The proposal would levy a 3% fee on the price of a short-term rental. The revenue would go toward affordable housing.

Republican-led statehouses, like Missouri’s, increasingly limit what rules municipalities can adopt — typically shutting down more progressive policies on issues like minimum wage and housing.

The Lovejoy apartment complex, soon to be built in downtown Alton, is to be complete by the end of 2026 and house 120 family units. In all, the project will cost more than $50 million. The company building the complex received more than $1 million in federal funding for construction on Tuesday.

St. Louis-based nonprofit Beyond Housing and its partners are coming together to build 36 new single-family homes in the Pagedale Town Center and throughout the city in north St. Louis County.

The program provides $12,500 in forgivable home loans to any benefits-eligible employee.