PEORIA, Ill. – The Peoria City Council will consider authorizing up to $300,000 in emergency funding Tuesday to prevent New Hope Apartments from closing and leaving 80 vulnerable residents homeless during winter.

Joe Dulin, the city’s Community Development Director, told WMBD’s Phil Luciano Show that the downtown facility is facing a crisis after three fires in two months knocked out its fire alarm system.

“Once that happened, the city kind of had to come together, work with New Hope, Phoenix Community Development Services, who manages that property, and the fire department to try to come up with a solution to prevent us from having to post the building, which would essentially have caused about 80 people to become homeless overnight,” Dulin said.

New Hope Apartments provides permanent

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