ALPENA, Mich. — Alpena County Dwelling Advancement has previously begun funding tasks with their Neighborhood Enhancement Program grants.
The county was specified $37,125 from NEP grants, which arrive from the Michigan Point out Housing Growth Authority. The Dwelling Advancement Office divided the grant into two properties selected by their neighborhood as properly as Residence Improvement.
The property owners experienced spoken to Alpena County ahead of relating to their requires, and the grants are funding exterior repairs for them.
“These had been two home owners that I understood that essential repairs,” explained Thea Lucas, the Property Advancement Director. “They experienced contacted our place of work in advance of, in which we had assisted a person property in unique with electric powered and plumbing and the other house with a furnace.”
Lucas states there could be extra grants readily available for owners in the potential. Alpena County Home Advancement is at present making use of for a grant from Rural Progress and Neighborhood Development Block Grants (CDBG). She hopes to make these obtainable for people to implement for in the future handful of months.
“The grant will come here to the Alpena County House Improvement office. We have an application procedure and a cell phone monitor that commences the course of action,” Lucas said. “We make guaranteed that they do stay in Alpena County, that they’re insurance and taxes are paid out up, and that they do qualify as much as an emergency need plus cash flow tips.”
For extra info, you can visit the Household Advancement Department’s web-site right here, or call (989)-354-9664.