The bill creates a $75 million COVID-19 Affordable Housing Grant Program to support the construction and rehabilitation of affordable multifamily rental housing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic establishes a property tax assessment incentive to encourage owners of multifamily buildings with 7 or more units to invest in their properties and keep rents affordable strengthens the Affordable Housing Planning and Appeal Act (AHPAA) to make it clear that this local government planning requirement explicitly applies to home rule communities extends the Illinois Affordable Housing Tax Credit (“State Donation Tax Credit”) through 2026 increases income targeting for state donation tax credit-financed homeownership projects to 120% of area median income improves income-based property tax assessment policies for housing financed with the federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits and increases the bonding authority for the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA), so that IHDA can finance more affordable housing. Key housing partners (Community Investment Corporation, Enterprise Community Partners, Housing Action Illinois, Illinois Housing Council, and the Metropolitan Planning Council) worked to lead the passage of HB 2621, the Affordable Housing Omnibus.
We are grateful to the physicians and pharmacists working on the front lines in Alliance for Health Equity member hospitals, policy experts from Illinois and across the country, and state agency staff for helping us craft this bill! See below for our policy brief on ensuring access to Naloxone through hospitals. This includes a provision for people who come to emergency rooms with opioid use disorder to get started on opioid treatment medication and be referred to an ongoing source of care in the community. In addition, the legislation requires the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services to develop a Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) benefit. The bill enhances hospitals' ability to help address the opioid crisis and save lives by removing administrative barriers to giving free take-home Naloxone to patients at risk of overdose and helping them to obtain free, no-cost Naloxone for their give-away programs with ease.
Laura Fine shepherded HB 2589 to unanimous passage on Monday, May 31.
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