Housing Rehabilitation Program

How it works

Lackawanna County’s Housing Rehabilitation Program provides conditional grants for rehabilitation assistance to owner-occupied homes in Lackawanna County. The program is intended to bring homes up to code and address conditions that create health and safety risks.

What the money covers

The guideline says the program is for rehabilitation of homes with deficiencies that pose health and safety threats. It does not list a detailed line-item scope in the excerpt available here, but it is framed as code-related home rehabilitation.

Amounts and matching

• Maximum assistance: $24,999.99 per eligible unit.
• If an owner-occupied duplex has a vacant unit, assistance is only available for the occupied unit; the cost to bring the unoccupied unit up to code is the applicant’s responsibility.
• Assistance is described as a conditional grant.
• If the property is sold within a set period after award, a repayment requirement applies:
  • Within 1 year: 100% repay
  • 1 to 2 years: 80% repay
  • 2 to 3 years: 60% repay
  • 3 to 4 years: 40% repay
  • 4 to 5 years: 20% repay

How to apply

The source here is an operating procedures/guidelines document and does not show a simple consumer application flow in the extracted text. It does indicate the county uses income qualification and construction phases as part of the program administration.

Timing and deadlines

The source does not state an open/close date or current funding status in the excerpt available here.