Housing Rehabilitation
Housing Rehabilitation is now a part of the new Community and Business Development Department.
This program provides financial and technical assistance to qualified owner occupants and investors to repair substandard properties. In targeted areas, low and moderate income owner occupants are eligible for direct and deferred payment loans, and investor owners are eligible for direct payment loans to repair single family dwellings. Investors are also eligible for direct payment loans to repair multifamily properties citywide.
In the Emergency Repair Program, which operates citywide, loans are available to remedy housing conditions, which pose an imminent threat to the occupant's health or safety. Citywide financial assistance is also available to remove architectural barriers to the mobility and accessibility of handicapped persons.
To foster neighborhood revitalization and homeownership, the Purchase/Tandem Loan Program provides financial assistance for the acquisition and rehabilitation of substandard structures affordable for ownership by low and moderate income individuals, particularly tenants.
The Lead Safe Winston-Salem Program is for property owners with houses and apartments built before 1978 and may qualify for grant funded assistance to help make the property lead safe. The program's focus is to eliminate the health hazards that lead-based paint presents to young children under the age of 6 years who can ingest paint chips or lead contaminated dust. Homeowners and landlords with properties within the Winston-Salem city limits that meet other eligibility requirements can receive a grant for free testing and lead-based paint repair work. Homeowners may apply for asistance if their income is 80% or less of the median income based on household size and have children under the age of 6 living in the property or visiting there at least six hours a week. Landlords may apply for assistance if they have low income tenants or vacant properties that are available for low to moderate income families with children under the age of 6.
Housing Rehabilitation also administers the Section 3 Construction Training Program Initiative, which is designed to provide opportunities for unskilled and underemployed individuals to obtain skills and knowledge in the construction field, and to increase the number of well-trained construction workers available to meet the hiring needs of local contractors and subcontractors. Emphasis is placed on females interested in nontraditional employment, at-risk young adults (18-35 years of age), ex-offenders, and homeless individuals.
Section 3 is a policy of the United States Congress, funded through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), whose purpose is to ensure that the employment and other economic opportunities generated by federal financial assistance for housing and community development programs shall, to the greatest extent feasible, be directed toward low- and very-low-income persons, particulary those who are recipients of government assistance for housing.
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