CHIP grants help fund home repairs
Program helping county to upgrade housing stock
County Finance Director Mike Pataky has announced the award of a $750,000 Community Housing Impact Preservation grant. File photo
MEDINA – Homeowners in Wadsworth and townships and villages around the county may be able to get help making home repairs from grant funds provided by the Community Housing Impact Preservation Program.
Medina County, partnering with the City of Wadsworth, has been awarded a CHIP grant for 2019 and 2020 in the amount of $750,000. County Finance Director Mike Pataky reports the program provides grant funds for home repairs and rehabilitation to eligible residents of Wadsworth and Medina County, but not residents of Brunswick or Medina who are subject to a separate grant program.
County commissioners authorized the creation of two funds Nov. 19 which are designed to track and administer the grant money. Pataky said the grant period for the current CHIP program runs from Sept. 1 to Dec. 31, 2021.
The program provides some outright grants or no-interest loans to help homeowners replace windows, furnaces, roofs, plumbing, electrical service and other basic repairs to their homes.
Two types of assistance are available. The minor home repairs program awards up to $12,000 for minor home repairs to correct fire code issues. The owner-occupied rehabilitation program can award up to $43,000 to repair building or fire code issues.
The program has specific requirements, including income limits and ownership of the home. Applicants must own and reside in the home and household income must be less than 80 percent of the region’s median income. That means annual income limits to qualify range from approximately $41,000 for a one-family household to $78,000 for an eight-person household.
In addition, households may have no more than $100,000 in assets, exclusive of the value of the home, must be current on all mortgage and tax payments and must provide evidence of house insurance.
Applications for owner occupied rehabilitation assistance will be funded in a series of rounds that will take place throughout the next two years. These applications will be ranked based on several criteria with those owners and properties in most need being served first.
Those interested in applying can pick up an application at Wadsworth City Hall, the finance department in the Medina County Administration Building or the Medina County CHIP Office located in suite 3B of the Medina Professional Building at 120 West Washington Street.
Completed applications must be dropped off at the CHIP Office in Medina where housing specialist Mindy Baldwin reviews them and can offer assistance in completing them. Applicants should call Baldwin at (330) 410-6581 to schedule an appointment and learn what supporting documentation may be required with their application.
Baldwin represents the Ohio Regional Development Corporation which has a contract with Medina County government to administer the program.
The CHIP Program provides grants to eligible communities interested in undertaking housing-related activities. The grants are awarded competitively and encourage a flexible, community-wide approach to improving and providing affordable housing for low- and moderate-income persons, and strengthening neighborhoods through community collaboration.
Medina County, partnering with the City of Wadsworth, has been awarded a CHIP grant for 2019 and 2020 in the amount of $750,000. County Finance Director Mike Pataky reports the program provides grant funds for home repairs and rehabilitation to eligible residents of Wadsworth and Medina County, but not residents of Brunswick or Medina who are subject to a separate grant program.
County commissioners authorized the creation of two funds Nov. 19 which are designed to track and administer the grant money. Pataky said the grant period for the current CHIP program runs from Sept. 1 to Dec. 31, 2021.
The program provides some outright grants or no-interest loans to help homeowners replace windows, furnaces, roofs, plumbing, electrical service and other basic repairs to their homes.
Two types of assistance are available. The minor home repairs program awards up to $12,000 for minor home repairs to correct fire code issues. The owner-occupied rehabilitation program can award up to $43,000 to repair building or fire code issues.
The program has specific requirements, including income limits and ownership of the home. Applicants must own and reside in the home and household income must be less than 80 percent of the region’s median income. That means annual income limits to qualify range from approximately $41,000 for a one-family household to $78,000 for an eight-person household.
In addition, households may have no more than $100,000 in assets, exclusive of the value of the home, must be current on all mortgage and tax payments and must provide evidence of house insurance.
Applications for owner occupied rehabilitation assistance will be funded in a series of rounds that will take place throughout the next two years. These applications will be ranked based on several criteria with those owners and properties in most need being served first.
Those interested in applying can pick up an application at Wadsworth City Hall, the finance department in the Medina County Administration Building or the Medina County CHIP Office located in suite 3B of the Medina Professional Building at 120 West Washington Street.
Completed applications must be dropped off at the CHIP Office in Medina where housing specialist Mindy Baldwin reviews them and can offer assistance in completing them. Applicants should call Baldwin at (330) 410-6581 to schedule an appointment and learn what supporting documentation may be required with their application.
Baldwin represents the Ohio Regional Development Corporation which has a contract with Medina County government to administer the program.
The CHIP Program provides grants to eligible communities interested in undertaking housing-related activities. The grants are awarded competitively and encourage a flexible, community-wide approach to improving and providing affordable housing for low- and moderate-income persons, and strengthening neighborhoods through community collaboration.
