Housing Rehabilitation

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.

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 (18-25 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.

• Staff Contacts
• Loans & Other Financial Assistance Information *
• Owner Occupied Financial Assistance
• Investor Owner Financial Assistance
• Emergency Repair Assistance
• Handicap (Architectural Barrier Removal)

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