Affordable Housing Development Fund – Haywood County

How it works

Haywood County’s Affordable Housing Development Fund is a county-administered disaster-recovery housing program. The county says the fund is intended to support affordable housing projects in disaster recovery, including single-family homeownership development, small-scale rental and homeownership developments, scattered-site infill, and large-scale multifamily rental new construction and/or rehabilitation or conversion.

What the money covers

The county manual describes project types that may include:

• New single-family homeownership development
• Small-scale affordable rental housing and homeownership developments
• Scattered-site or infill rental or homeownership housing
• Large-scale multifamily rental new construction
• Rehabilitation/conversion of multifamily housing

The manual also includes a resilience-oriented building checklist that mentions:

• Solar shingles
• Roof hardening
• Impact-resistant doors
• Fire-resistant materials
• Defensible space around a building for wildfires

Amounts and matching

The public county manual reviewed does not state a simple household maximum amount for individual homeowners. It is a project-financing program, so award size depends on the funded development proposal.

How to apply

The county’s public materials indicate that qualified public, private, and nonprofit organizations apply for financing under the program. The manual reviewed does not present a homeowner application path.

Timing and deadlines

The reviewed public manual does not provide a currently open homeowner deadline.

Important limitation

This is not a direct homeowner repair grant. It is a development-financing program that may indirectly support wildfire-resilient housing construction or rehabilitation in Haywood County.