Many types of housing repair grants are available for low-income residents of the United States. Grant funds do not have to be repaid and you don't need a good credit score to qualify for a housing repair grant. Depending on the grant-funding source, you may need nonprofit status. However, there are housing repair grants available for very low-income residents of the United States.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has grant funds available for emergency repairs to multifamily dwellings that are occupied by senior citizens of the United States.
Individuals are not eligible for these particular grant funds. You must be a private nonprofit organization that owns multifamily dwellings in need of emergency repairs. An example of the type of repairs covered in this grant would be roof repairs, emergency plumbing and electrical repairs.
Kings County Housing Repair Grants
Kings County is located in Washington State and provides grant funds for housing repair to low-income wage earners. Low-income homeowners and low-income renters are eligible for these grant funds.
These housing repair grant funds are available for quality-of-life repairs and improvements. Low-income homeowners and low-income renters can apply for these grant funds to repair or replace roofs, install new septic tank systems or to make a residence wheelchair accessible. Kings County will send a representative grant fund applicants to your home for assessment.
ReNEW Nonprofit Housing Repair Grant I
The ReNEW Nonprofit Housing Repair Grant I program has been established to fund community-based, faith-based and grassroots organizations. Eligibility requirements are that the organization that is awarded the grant funds must supply the labor for the housing repairs. This program will fund the materials for housing repairs only.
These grant funds are available to repair single-family dwellings only in an area that is currently experiencing a high foreclosure rate.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Housing Repair Grants
Grant funds are available through The Rural Housing Repair Grants program. Homeowners must be very low-income wage earners and the grants must be used to make repairs, improvements or to modernize, single-family dwellings.
Grant recipients must be 62 years or older to qualify. Very low-income has been defined as lower than 50 percent of the median income of the community where the applicant resides.
Grant Application Deadlines
All grant programs have a documented cut-off date or deadline when grant applications will no longer be accepted. However, housing assistance programs for Veterans and U.S. Citizens with disabilities allocate grant funds for housing repairs annually. This means that even if you miss the cut-off date for the current year funding, you may apply for funding for the upcoming year.
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