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USDA Awards Grant to Homestead Affordable Housing to Preserve Rural Housing

Name
Jessica Bowser
City
Topeka
Release Date

USDA Rural Development Multi-Family Housing Director Wilma Marconnet announced that Homestead Affordable Housing, a non-profit organization located in Holton, Kan., received a $35,415 Housing Preservation Grant to repair six affordable housing units for very-low- and low-income families living in Jackson County.

 

“USDA is committed to assisting rural Kansans have access to affordable, safe housing,” said Marconnet.  “The agency’s Housing Preservation Grants will support Homestead Affordable Housing in assisting six families to make essential repairs to their homes that they wouldn’t be able to do otherwise.”  

 

USDA is awarding $3.9 million in Housing Preservation Grants to 107 organizations throughout the nation.  The grants will renovate 966 rural housing units. They can be used to remove health and safety hazards, make homes more energy efficient, and modernize the units. Eligible recipients include local governments, public agencies, federally recognized Indian Tribes, nonprofit organizations and faith-based and community groups. They distribute the grants to homeowners and owners of multi-family rental properties or cooperative dwellings who rent to low- and very-low-income residents.

 

Funding for all awards is contingent upon the recipients meeting the terms of their grant agreement.

 

Since 2009, USDA Rural Development has invested nearly $13 billion to start or expand nearly 112,000 rural businesses; helped 1.1 million rural residents buy homes; funded nearly 9,200 community facilities such as schools, public safety and health care facilities; and helped bring high-speed Internet access to nearly 6 million rural residents and businesses. USDA also has invested $31.3 billion in 963 electric projects that have financed more than 185,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines serving 4.6 million rural residents.

 

For more information on USDA Rural Development programs in Kansas, visit www.rd.usda.gov/ks or call (785) 271-2700. 

 

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