PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) – A new effort aimed at reducing homelessness for men who’ve left prison has been paused in Peoria.

Tuesday night, the Peoria City Council voted to put off a decision on a special use request for nonprofit Gro Community to run a halfway house on SW Adams Street.

Gro officials told council members that their Reentry Community Housing Initiative has been successful in Chicago, and they want to bring the program to Peoria.

25 News reports that in the house, 10 to 12 parolees from the Illinois Department of Corrections would pay $200 to $300 a month in rent. To qualify for the program, they would first have to go through a workforce development program.

“Oftentimes what we see is that men who come home from prison, they don’t have the landlord history, they don’t hav

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