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Senior committee hears O'Fallon update on HUD-funded home-repair grants and forgivable loans
Summary
Melissa Hoffman, O'Fallon's public assistance coordinator, briefed the Senior Resident Advisory Committee on CDBG-funded home repair programs: exterior grants up to $10,000, interior five-year forgivable loans up to $7,500, and mobile-home grants up to $3,000, with newly updated HUD income limits.
Melissa Hoffman, the City of O'Fallon public assistance coordinator, told the Senior Resident Advisory Committee on April 14 that the city uses federal CDBG dollars administered through HUD to fund three home-repair programs for low- and moderate-income residents.
Hoffman said the exterior home-repair program is a one-time grant of up to $10,000 for work such as roofs, siding, soffit, fascia, trim, gutters, hazardous tree removal, fencing and remedying exterior code violations. The interior program is offered as a five-year forgivable loan up to $7,500; homeowners must remain in the…
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