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Dayton Home Repair Network says collaborative effort reached nearly 200 households in 2024
Summary
City-funded and nonprofit partners told the Dayton City Commission the Dayton Home Repair Network streamlined access to repairs and weatherization, leveraging about $4.1 million from the Dayton Recovery Plan and serving nearly 200 households with two or more partner programs in 2024.
Eileen Harrell, director of the Dayton Energy Collaborative and chair of the Dayton Home Repair Network, told the Dayton City Commission on March 12 that the network coordinated home repair, weatherization and health-and-safety work across multiple nonprofit and public partners and reached nearly 200 households in 2024.
Harrell said the network created a single access point and a universal application that folded five program applications into one, and that partners used the streamlined system to maximize grant funding. "Our goal, by working together, is to ensure that we don't leave any house without essential projects incomplete," Harrell said.
The presentation outlined how the Dayton Energy Collaborative facilitates the network and listed core partners: Rebuilding Together Dayton; County Corps; Habitat for Humanity of Greater Dayton; and Miami Valley Community Action Partnership (which also provides weatherization). Liberty High…
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