Single Family Rehabilitation Program offers relief
One of those is the Single Family Rehabilitation Program.
To qualify, household income must not exceed 80 percent of the median family income.
Concern, intense rhetoric accompany HB 1239 in Pierre
'We give assistance through a zero interest deferred loan. We don't take repayment on those loans until the individual or family sells that house or moves out of that house. As long as they are living in and maintaining that home, it's a secondary mortgage or a mortgage on their house that they never have to pay back while they're living in it,' said Housing Development Manager Logan Penfield.
This program can help with plumbing, heating, cooling and roof repair.
Handicap accessibility also qualifies for the program.
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