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Twenty-two local organizations received grants to help low-income Ohioans complete home repairs and provide homebuyer counseling. The Ohio Development Services Agency granted approximately $4.57 million to support health and safety home repairs, improve handicapped accessibility and provide down payment assistance and homebuyer counseling.
The Ohio District 5 Area Agency on Aging, which serves Ashland, Crawford, Huron, Knox, Marion, Morrow, Richland, Seneca, and Wyandot counties, received $640,000 in grant funding.
Local organizations use the Housing Assistance Grant Program to help Ohioans at or below 50 percent of the area median income with emergency home repairs and Ohioans at or below 65 percent of the area median income with down payment assistance or homebuyer counseling. The program is funded by the Ohio Housing Trust Fund.
Other agencies receiving grants included the Ara Agency on Aging 11, Area Agency on Aging District 7, Area Agency on Aging Region 9, Buckeye Hills Regional Council, CAC of Portage County, Catholic Charities Housing Opportunities, Clermont Senior Services, Cleveland Housing Network, Community Action Commission of Fayette County, Community Action Organization of Delaware, Madison, and Union Counties, Community Action Program Commission of the Lancaster Fairfield County Area, Community Housing Solutions, Gallia-Meigs Community Action Agency, Hocking, Athens, Perry Community Action Partnership, Interfaith Home Maintenance Service, Neighborhood Housing Partnership of Greater Springfield, Rebuilding Together Central Ohio, The Ability Center of Greater Toledo, and Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging.