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The City of Peoria will provide Phoenix Community Development Services with a gap payment to cover some operational costs for New Hope Apartments.

Plans are in the works to provide Lula NFP with another $200,000 to continue operating its pop-up shelter for unhoused Peoria residents through June 30.

The northern Illinois city is of similar size to Peoria, where conversations about the unhoused have become supercharged in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's Grants Pass decision last year.

Abatement of public campsites in downtown Peoria has been put on hold until January.

A City of Peoria program is helping unhoused people overcome the last few barriers between them and a home.

With just under 15 days to go before the city of Peoria's ban targeting homeless encampments on public property goes into effect, Community Development Director Joe Dulin says it’s difficult to define just how ready the city is to enforce it.

Anxious. Uncertain. Fearful. These are just a few of the emotions Peoria’s unsheltered residents and advocacy groups are feeling in the aftermath of the city’s recently approved public encampment ban.

The Peoria City Council on Tuesday voted 6-5 to enact a prohibition of homeless encampments with the possibility of jail terms among potential penalties for multiple violations.

Advocates for Peoria's unhoused population see a lot of problems with the city's proposal to ban unauthorized encampments on public property.

A new program uses $936,000 in American Rescue Plan funds to help permanently house Peoria families on the precipice of homelessness.