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$750K In Grants Rehabilitate About A Dozen Century Homes
July 26, 2012
The Town of Century is wrapping up two grants totaling three-quarters of a million dollars that was used to rehabilitate about a dozen homes in the town.
The town was awarded a $650,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) to rehabilitate or replace homes that are currently occupied by persons of low or moderate income. The town also received $100,000 in Residential Construction Mitigation Program Funds for hurricane retrofits.
Homes rehabilitated under the program were:
- 210 East Street, Myrtice Lowe, — Bill Walter Construction, $42,786
- 221 East Street, Frankie Lowe et al, — Bill Walter Construction, $36,592
- 7640 Mayo Street, Hattie Odom — Thompson Contractor Resources, $57,915
- 540 East Pond Street, Roy and Rosie Pearl Hale, Motes Construction, $86,465
- 6 Howard Street, Cullie Mae Carter — Motes Construction, Inc., $64,817
- 521 East Hecker Road, Ollie Kelly — Thompson Contractor Resources, $68,102
- 411 Cedar Street, Dorothy Newton — John Claude, General Contractor, $38,215
- 7820 Jefferson Avenue, Elsie Reaves — Parker Custom Homes, $79,120
- 300 Front Street, Charles H. and Wanda Therrell — Mike Motes Builders, $59,000
- 571 Church Street, Maryland P. Bridges – Bill Walther Construction, $47,875
- 301 East Hecker, Richard and Eva Carter — Mike Motes Builders, $32,000
Additional funds from the grants were using for relocation costs, inspections, environmental reviews, lead testing, surveys and other associated expenses.
Pictured above and below: Before and after pictures of a house at 540 East Pont Street in Century that was rehabilitated using grant money. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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18 Responses to “$750K In Grants Rehabilitate About A Dozen Century Homes”
Just another reason not to do anything except wait for the government to do something for you. When will the people in charge do away with this entitlement society we have created.
No civic grant would come in fix the roof of an individual that might not have home owners insurance. It is possible that a person in that state need to determine if food or insurance was the priority for that time frame. Why should government grants, and be allowed to repair sites such as this…and by the way….is the city picking up the tab for the satellite service. That seems new too from the picture.
how anyone can justify repairing these homes with tax-payers money. If my house is repaired, I pay for it. Sometimes the repairs are not made because my taxes must be paid. Please remember folks, there is no such thing as a free lunch—–someone is paying for it!
You guys commenting are a sad lot. Yeah it was too much money for what we have seen in the photos, but the photos aren’t everything. So what they have a dish?! You can get them for free online with $14.95 shipping and pay $19.95 a month for basic service!
I bet the owners are very happy and proud to get these repairs, and I bet ANY OF YOU would be too! But it is not YOU so you’re gonna sit on here slinging comments and belittling the whole thing.
Do you guys even know these people? Do you know their financial status? Do you know their medical needs? Do you know anything at all about how/why they got the improvements? I bet not…
Shame on all of you! Karma, learn it, it’ll come back around.
Wow how can they afford the satellite in the yard? Are they required to keep homeowners insurance on the homes? Does the government keep up the insurance? I have to pay over 2,500.00 a year for my home in Century. When they did the improvements did they put the clips on the roofs. It saves about 1,000 a year on insurance. I know in Florida it is very hard to get a insurance on a older home. I do think they could got more for their money. My family has been building homes for 40 years in Alabama I know they could have.
$32,000 just to do the insides and to put new windows with no painting of the house and I’m not blaming the president. I just can’t see it.
$32,000 just to do the insides & new windows of an “A” frame house.
no painting of the house. Someting is wrong and I am not blaming it on the President.
I voted for change, beats the alternative,
BUT……..this is crazy. I would be cheaper to build houses and give them away than renovate these houses.
Give the money to Habitat for Humanity, they’d build a hundred houses not just renovate eleven houses.
I Love your new home MR AND MRS HALE
Let me Guess ??? This is more of that “HOPE & CHANGE” that was promised ??? Any upgrades/repairs i’ve need I have worked to pay for them !!! Where is the Motive for these people to work when you and I can work to pay for there houses to be fixed up .
This makes me sick!!!!!! What’s really sad is if a hurricane comes through i will have to fight tooth and nail for any repairs that may need to be done to my home like many others. If these homes or any homes like it get damaged the government will pay no questions asked. So not only do i get up every morning and work hard to pay for my home, i have to pay for others to.WHERE ARE THESE RESIDENTS “FAIR SHARE” ? That our president and all the other Democrat’s speak of???????
Wow, 86k? That would buy and pay off my home right now and it’s brick.
Is this something Century is doing? Where is this money coming from?
I smell something….
OK i live in a old house but never got offered any kind of help to fix the siding or anything else. if Century would have offered me help with getting the supplies to make our house look better my husband could have put it on his self for cheaper or free of what the companies charge. but some roads just don’t get looked at to make pretty cause of the checkered past they have.
86,000 dollars for new siding and a roof. I smell a rat.
People should be ashamed to willingly and knowingly take money that has been “legally” stolen from others and passed out by the government.
I does look much better, but for $86k they could have torn it down and built a new SS Steele or Dobbins home. I have to wonder how much old wiring and plumbing is still under that pretty new siding.
$86,000 dollars??? They could’ve probably just started from scratch and not just covered up the old. Give it a year and see how good it looks then.
I see a new satellite dish out front. I certainly hope our tax dollars aren’t paying for their HBO.
It is certainly an improvement.