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City presents status of exterior home improvement grants, $400,000 annual program
Summary
Community Development staff reported the city’s housing development and beautification program provides $100,000 annually for $5,000 home purchase grants and $300,000 for exterior improvements; three-year targeting for code-violation repairs was described along with recent uptake.
Debbie Eversole of the Community Development Department briefed the board on the city’s housing development and beautification program, saying the program has an annual budget of $400,000 split between home purchase assistance and exterior-improvement grants. “The annual amount budgeted for the program has been historically 400,000 per year. This is divided 100,000 for home purchase assistance and then 300,000 for improvements,” Eversole said.
Eversole said the home purchase assistance takes the form of $5,000 grants for qualifying buyers and that the $100,000 allotment funds about 20 applicants. She said the…
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