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Aging services update: HCCBG caps, reporting-system problems and state storm funds
Summary
Allison, county aging staff, told the Housing Committee that HCCBG-funded home-improvement projects for residents 60 and older carry a $7,000 per-project, per-household cap and that reporting-system problems this year led one provider to relinquish funds.
Allison (county aging staff) briefed the committee on Buncombe County’s aging-related housing supports, explaining how federal HCCBG and county supplemental aging funds are being used for home repairs and short-term housing supports for residents age 60 and over.
“All the different things that the funding can be used for,” Allison said, describing Home and Community Care Block Grant (HCCBG) eligible activities and noting that HCCBG home-improvement projects have a per-project and per-household restriction of $7,000. She said HCCBG-funded home improvements are limited to people age 60 and over.
Allison said Mountain Housing Opportunities received $64,939 in the most recent fiscal year and that the HCCBG committee, pending…
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