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Committee to study raising income eligibility for University Heights exterior maintenance grant
Summary
The Building and Housing Committee discussed raising the income threshold for the city's exterior maintenance grant after staff said few residents applied under the current limit. Members asked staff for application records and local income data and agreed to table the ordinance for further review.
The University Heights Building and Housing Committee discussed an ordinance to raise income eligibility for the city's exterior maintenance grant at its Sept. 15 meeting, and agreed to table the measure while staff gather application records and local income data.
Vice Mayor Weiss proposed increasing the program's eligibility from 120% of the federal poverty level to 200% "so more people would be able to take advantage of this program," she said, giving example income figures on the HUD chart used by staff ("a family household of 1 needs to make 31,300 to be eligible, and a family household of 4 ... 64,300" in one cited federal chart and later HUD-derived numbers of $55,006.50 for a one-person household and about $79,500 for a family of four were discussed during the meeting).
The change is intended to…
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