Allan Timke
Allan Timke is IACAA's Housing and Homelessness Specialist and has been with IACAA since 1991 working on a range of housing and homelessness-related policy issues and providing technical assistance in those areas to community action agencies and other nonprofit organizations.
Since 1991, Mr. Timke has edited IACAA's Homeless Headlines newsletter funded by the Illinois Department of Human Services. The publication is available on the IACAA web site, and by email.
Recently, Mr. Timke has taken on responsibility for administering IACAA’s implementation of the Illinois Rental Housing Support Program (RHSP), a rental housing subsidy for low income individuals and families. Together with ten member agencies, IACAA has received funding under all three rounds of RHSP. With full implementation, IACAA will subsidize approximately 200 rental housing units spread across as many as 55 of Illinois’ 102 counties.
Since 1999, he has been IACAA's lead person working in partnership with the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide technical assistance for HUD grantees and homeless service providers.
Currently Mr. Timke helps provide staff support to the IACAA Board of Directors Legislative Committee. He has served on the board of Housing Action Illinois since 1989 and is currently Chair of Housing Action Illinois' Advocacy Committee. He also represents IACAA in a range of housing-related organizations in Illinois, including the Housing Roundtable, and the Supportive Housing Providers Association. In the past, he has staffed an IACAA Housing Sub-Committee and was active in IACAA activities that led to the incorporation of IACAA's Illinois Community Action Development Corporation in 1999.
Prior to coming to IACAA, Mr. Timke had approximately 15 years experience in direct services to low income Illinois residents, much of which involved work with homeless families, individuals and youth. He has more than 34 years of social service experience overall. Allan has a bachelor's in Sociology from Western Illinois University, and a master's in Sociology from Illinois State University. He has an interest in drumming, blues music, astronomy, computing, exercise, and reading.