“The URP 2002 Program attracted competitive applications from a broad variety of housing providers across the state,” said A. Robert Kucab, executive director of the N.C. Housing Finance Agency. Kucab said SCAP’s success in the competition reflects its commitment and capacity to meet the need for urgent repair assistance in its service area.
Of the 68 agencies that applied to NCHFA, only 21 were approved for funding.
“I am excited to be able to offer urgent repair services to low-income persons in SCAP’s service area,” said Nezzie Smith, SCAP executive director. The service area includes Moore, Richmond, Montgomery and Anson counties.
With successful grant applications, SCAP has been operating the Urgent Repair Program continuously since 1995.
The goal of the program is to provide repairs and modifications to homes, alleviating poor housing conditions that pose an imminent threat to the lives or safety of very low-income homeowners with special housing needs. Special-needs households include households of five or more persons and those that house the elderly, physically handicapped or disabled, and single parents.
Implementation of the new grant is expected to begin in April. SCAP’s current Urgent Repair Program began last April and runs through October of this year.
SCAP’s most recently completed Urgent Repair Program, which ended in June 2000, included installation of bathroom facilities in five homes, construction of five ramps to allow handicapped, disabled or elderly homeowners easy access to their homes, five entire roof replacements, two roofing repairs, and structural repairs including floor and wall repair to five homes.
More information is available from SCAP Weatherization Coordinator Robert Whitaker at 947-5675, extension 30.
