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Century Moves Forward With $650,000 Housing Rehab Grant Application
September 18, 2012
The Town of Century voted Monday night to move forward with the application process for $650,000 in housing improvement grants.
If awarded, the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) will be used to rehabilitate or replace homes that are currently occupied by persons of low or moderate income. New guidelines recently approved by the town council will allow grant money to be used to replace mobile homes with conventional site built homes.
The town’s official application for the grant money will be submitted October 1. Town consultant Robin Phillips said the town hopes to know if their application is approved by November and December, with the first applications for assistance to be taken from the public in December.
The town has already been awarded $155,000 in grant money to harden homes against hurricanes. The Florida Division of Emergency Management awarded Century $105,000 in Residential Construction Mitigation Program Funds. The Community Action Program Committee will provide an addition $50,000 in grant money, bringing the total dollars for hurricane retrofits to $155,000.
Work was recently completed on a previously awarded $650,000 CDBG grant and a $100,000 hurricane retrofit grant that was awarded last year. About a dozen private homes were rehabilitated under the program. [Read more...]
Pictured: One of about a dozen homes rehabilitated in Century last year using grant funds. NorthEscambia.com file photos, click to enlarge.
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3 Responses to “Century Moves Forward With $650,000 Housing Rehab Grant Application”
Jack I understand in regards to HUD, the IRS and taxpayer, it’s just that I am amazed that these funds are available. I wonder what the total expendeture will be on a national scale for these grants. It’s just amazing that with our deficit these grants can be made.
I am happy that the residents of Century are receiving these grants. If Century did not receive the money, the Israelis or Afghans would. Our government will just pour it into the wind, on some foreign fools errand.
Funding comes from HUD which, through the IRS, takes money from working taxpayers. So, if you pay income tax, the money came from you.
I like helping people, but I cannot figure out where this money is comming from, in this economy?
650K! The people of Century had better keep their Mayor and City Council as I believe they could squeeze blood from a turnip.