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Improvement of Owner-Occupied Housing
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These activities strengthen existing neighborhoods through improvement of existing owner-occupied housing to meet local building, energy and accessibility codes. These activities help improve the physical status of existing residences, primarily within the CDBG Target Area. They include modifications for accessibility, minor repairs and deferred maintenance, and major renovation for building code compliance. These activities address Objective A in the Five-Year Plan and generally serve those households with incomes less than 80% of median. Benchmarks include such measures as units brought to housing quality standards or local building code, and an increase in the value of housing within the neighborhood (compared to the City baseline).
Funds will be targeted to housing stock in need of repair or rehab, ensuring that homes then meet City minimum housing and building codes, or provide accessibility improvements, or are safer or more energy efficient.
The 2007 target goal is to provide 350 households with either home repair services or financial assistance to improve the physical condition of their housing.
For information on how to submit a proposal in this category, click here.
The Commission will give preference to activities which focus at least 60% of all repairs or rehab activities to homes in neighborhoods within the CDBG Target Area.
Funds
may be used only for housing units which do not exceed the HOME
assessment limit designated by the Federal Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD). CD staff may allow for individual
exceptions in cases involving hardship.
Funds
applied to a property shall require a minimum of $300 in
subsidized repair assistance per unit, and be limited to $3,200
per property per ten-year period for subsidized repair projects; or $21,000 in rehab
loan assistance for each house (approximately 10% of the HOME single-family
value limit). The limit for rehab involving lead hazard reduction may be
increased up to $26,000, based on actual cost projections for the lead work.
Funds may not
be used to repair or rehab a home in which the owner has previously received
assistance though CD-funded ownership assistance programs (excluding ADDI
funds).
CD staff may
allow for individual exceptions to this one-time use restriction in
circumstances where the repair is for accessibility improvements or for
unforeseen repair needs, if deferral would result in further damage to the
property and/or noncompliance with City housing codes, or would cause undue
hardship. In instances where rehab or repair funds are provided to
previously assisted homeowners, the total amount of the combined assistance
shall not exceed $51,000.
The CD Office shall secure amounts of assistance greater than $3,200 with a mortgage or a covenant or right of first refusal on each assisted property.
Ongoing / currently funded activities in this category include:
City Community and Economic Development: Deferred Rehab Loan
Independent Living: Home Modification
Project Home: Home Repair and Rehab
