Love Your Neighborhood
Habitat for Humanity helps families build homes, but it also works with families to improve living conditions and quality of life within neighborhoods. Habitat for Humanity Pulaski County has launched a program to assist current homeowners with exterior home preservation, yard improvement and select home repairs. Projects include painting, landscaping, weatherization and minor repairs.
Examples of projects that may qualify for assistance:
Landscaping – Trimming bushes, planting new bushes, flowers and trees
Cleaning out gutters
Repairing, adding and painting porch and ramp railings
Painting shutters
Adding, painting or repairing porch columns
Removing debris
Other exterior work that meet our criteria
To qualify for assistance, the applicant must:
- Elderly and/or a veteran incapacitated to do the work themselves
- Have household income below 60% of HUD Area Median Income per family size
- Have paid their property taxes in full
- Have occupied the residence as their primary residence for the past five years
- Have current homeowners’ insurance
- If there is a mortgage it must be current
- Unable to afford the repairs without assistance
- Mobile homes must be permanently fixed to owned property
