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Housing commission gives preliminary support to United Way grant backing mobile-home health-and-safety repairs
Summary
The Community Action Agency asked the Ottawa County Housing Commission for a letter of support for a United Way community impact grant to repair mobile homes; commissioners approved a preliminary letter pending final review to meet the funder’s tight deadline.
The Community Action Agency asked the Ottawa County Housing Commission for a letter of support for a United Way community impact grant to address major health-and-safety needs in mobile homes.
Jennifer (Community Action Agency representative) told the commission the agency plans to apply for $300,000 over three years to repair mobile homes so they can later be weatherized, and that the application was due the following day.
"The grant request is for $300,000. It's a 3 year grant," Jennifer said. She described the work as focused on health-and-safety repairs — replacing failing roofs and addressing major plumbing and structural problems — with the goal of allowing households to remain safely in place and then receive weatherization services.
Barb (grant coordinator) described the agency's eligibility framework…
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