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Article: Home-purchase program targets police officers
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- Evanston Review (IL)
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- September 12, 1996
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Police officers will be encouraged to become first time home buyers under a program that drew favorable interest at Monday's City Council meeting.
The program is based on a very successful initiative instituted to encourage first-time home buyers to purchase in Evanston.
Residency for police officers has been a long-simmering issue. Aldermen tabled a discussion a few years back that might have required police officers to live within a certain radius of the city.
The new program, proposed by the Evanston Housing Corporation and Housing Commission, has a twofold purpose, members of those groups said in their memo to the council.
The program would "increase the number of resident police ...