FY 2019 ANNUAL REPORT

Housing Rehabilitation
Our Housing Rehab Program is designed to improve living conditions for low-to-moderate income
households as well as to better the quality of the housing stock in the Hilltowns. The program has
successfully rehabbed over 725 homes in the region over a span of 25+ years.
The Housing Rehabilitation Program provides deferred-payment loans (loans with no payments and
no interest) to income eligible homeowners to make a wide variety of code compliant repairs to their
homes. Repairs can include replacing leaky roofs, energy inefficient windows and doors, and old siding,
fixing failed septic systems, failed wells, rotted decks, porches, and steps, and updating electrical and
plumbing systems along with a sundry of other eligible work. The program provides a source of steady,
year-round employment for area contractors which also helps to improve the local economy.
FY 2019 Housing Rehab Program:
Anticipate rehabbing 22 homes in the towns of Chesterfield, Cummington, Goshen, Peru,
Plainfield, Williamsburg, and Worthington using deferred payment loans for home repairs
and lead paint removal. Deferred
payment loans available for these
repairs total $685,850.00.
FY 2018 Housing Rehab Program:
Rehabilitated 10 homes in the
towns of Chesterfield, Cummington,
Goshen, Peru, Plainfield, and
Worthington using deferred payment
loans for home repairs and lead
paint removal. Deferred payment
loans for these repairs totaled
$374,166.00.
FY 2017 Housing Rehab Program:
Rehabilitated 18 homes in the
towns of Chesterfield, Cummington,
Goshen, Peru, Plainfield, and
Worthington using deferred payment
loans for home repairs and lead
paint removal. Deferred payment
loans for these repairs totaled
$540,388.00.
Housing Rehab Team
Paula Bilodeau, Program Manager
Doug Desmarais, Rehab Specialist
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