Funds for home repairs available

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Twenty-six local organizations are receiving grants to help low-income Ohioans complete home repairs and
to provide homebuyer counseling. The Ohio Development Services Agency is granting $5.68 million to
support health and safety home repairs, improve handicapped accessibility and provide down payment
assistance and homebuyer counseling.
Grants from the Housing Assistance Grant Program will help repair more than 2,000 homes and provide 62
families with down payment assistance or homebuyer counseling. Ohioans assisted must be at or below 50
percent of the area median income for home repairs and at or below 65 percent of the area median income
for down payment assistance and homebuyer counseling. The program is funded by the Ohio Housing Trust
Fund.
Local agencies in northwest Ohio receiving grants are: Area Office on Aging of Northwestern Ohio, Inc.,
$180,000, serving Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Henry, Lucas, Ottawa, Paulding, Sandusky, Williams and Wood
counties; and WSOS Community Action Commission, $271,000, serving Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca and Wood
counties.

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