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Offers a grant for housing rehabilitation, public services, community facilities, infrastructure improvement, and development and planning.

Provides residents with the HOME application, business loans, and infrastructure development.

Provides major repairs to homes in order to bring the home up to HUD housing standards for health and safety. Home owners must have lived in the home at least 2 years.

Assists low and moderate-income households seeking to make home repairs to bring their properties up to code or correct deficiencies.

Owners of rental property located between Grier, West 4th, Park Avenue and Beeber, can apply for a home repair and improvement grant under the BNIP PHARE Program. Code, safety, weatherization and general property improvements are eligible. Units must be occupied by predominately lower to moderate income tenants at an affordable rent.

Offers opportunities for homeowners, tenants, and owners of rental property. There are forgivable interest-free housing rehabilitation loans, grants for accessibility upgrades, forgivable interest-free down payment and closing cost assistance loans, free legal assistance, housing stabilizing short term funding, programs to stimulate both new construction and substantial rehabilitation, and programs to stimulate production of rental housing.

Offers grants and low-interest loans for repairs to owner occupied homes within the city limits. Household income limits and other eligibility requirements apply. Helps qualified households make code, safety and other needed repairs to their homes. The maximum available to an eligible household is $30,000. Eligible work includes roofing, electrical, plumbing, lead paint hazard reduction, insulation, window replacement, and many other items.

Helps reduce the cost of energy usage around homes through the installation of energy saving tools, utilities, and appliances; provides energy education to assist clients in further reducing energy costs by utilizing their energy more efficiently.

Helps reduce the cost of energy usage around homes through the installation of energy saving tools, utilities, and appliances; provides energy education to assist clients in further reducing energy costs by utilizing their energy more efficiently.

Helps reduce the cost of energy usage around homes through the installation of energy saving tools, utilities, and appliances; provides energy education to assist clients in further reducing energy costs by utilizing their energy more efficiently.

Assists eligible low- and moderate-income Chester County homeowners in making critical repairs so their homes are habitable, safe, accessible, and healthy. The total amount of financial assistance an eligible household may receive is limited to less than $25,000.

The Community Development office has three programs to assist homeowners.

• Emergency Home Rehabilitation Program provides assistance to

eligible homeowners in situations that create unexpected and immediate danger to the health and well being of the occupants of the home. The Growing Homeowner's Initiative is a matched savings and education initiative to help individuals and families turn the dream of purchasing a home into a reality. The Luzerne County Homeownership Program is to create affordable home buyer opportunities for low to moderate income persons.

Assists homeowners to rehabilitate owner occupied homes to repair any code violation and to meet housing quality standards. Possible repairs include: correcting code violations, repairing major systems such as heating, electrical, plumbing and roofing, making the home more energy efficient, structural components (walls, decks and porches), and windows and doors. Not for Emergency Work.

Provide weatherization and home improvements for income-eligible homeowners and renters to reduce energy costs and improve comfort through:

• State-funded Weatherization Assistance Program
• FirstEnergy WARM Program
• UGI Low Income Usage Reduction Program
• LIHEAP Crisis Program in Lehigh and Northampton counties

Weatherization jobs include air sealing, insulating attics and basements and exterior walls, caulking, weather-stripping, repairing doors and windows, installing, venting, and testing bath fans and kitchen exhaust hoods, and other necessary improvements based on the home assessment recommendations. The LIHEAP program repairs or replaces heating systems in cold weather emergencies.

Offers grants to provide assistance to low-income owners of single-family home owners. Funds are for home improvements to correct code deficiencies.

Provides financial assistance in the form of a 4-year forgivable lien to Indiana County homeowners for home rehabilitation (repair) and accessible modifications. Rehabilitation activities include but are not limited to roofs, electrical, plumbing, hvac and energy envelope repairs. Rehabilitation activities may also address accessibility modifications such as ramps, grab bars, bathroom modifications, door widening, stair lifts, etc.

Serves the owner/occupants by upgrading their home. Eligible rehabilitation activities are restricted to functional repairs to the residential structure or a component of the structure such as the heating, electrical, water or sewer systems. Cosmetic upgrades are not allowed.

Provides energy conservation measures installed to houses or mobile homes in order to reduce heating/cooling and utility costs. Measures may include attic insulation, floor insulation, furnace testing, weather stripping, door sweeps, caulking, hot water heater and pipe wrap, faucet aerators, low flow showerheads and energy education.

Provides financial assistance for critical home repair services including roofs, furnaces, electrical, plumbing, windows, gutters, downspouts, and concrete.

Increases access to services, such as water and sewer systems, housing, health clinics, emergency service facilities, and electric and telephone service. Promotes economic development through loans to businesses. Provides technical assistance and information to help agricultural producers and cooperatives get started and improve their effectiveness.

Provides emergency financial assistance to veterans to help pay for housing, utilities, and transportation (including work and medical appointments, auto loan and insurance payments, and car repairs). Pays directly to landlords, vendors, and creditors.

Provides funding which may be used for a variety of improvements to your home including windows, roofing, electric, plumbing, heating and obvious structural defects.

Provides low interest loans and/or grants for home improvements to those Wilkes-Barre City homeowners who qualify. Eligible rehabilitation work will consist of repairs to correct housing code violations and lead based paint reduction activities.

Provides county-wide housing rehabilitation targeting residents age 62 or older and disabled persons regardless of age who own their own homes.

Provides home repair and renovation assistance for owner-occupied households, subject to funding availability. Funds may be used for eligible home repairs and debt consolidation within program guidelines.