Home Repairs and Accessibility Modifications

Who Can Benefit from the Home Repairs and Accessibility Modifications Program

The Home Repairs and Accessibility Modifications housing program serves persons with low incomes who own their own homes but need money to pay for emergency repairs or to modify their home to make it more accessible.

What is the Home Repairs and Accessibility Modifications Program

The Home Repairs and Accessibility Modifications housing program gives a person money for accessibility modifications, emergency repairs, home improvements and weatherization to help the person stay in their own home.

Examples may be: adding a ramp, handrails, or other physical changes to the home to get rid of the physical barriers that make it hard or impossible for a person to continue to live in their home.

How can a Person Apply for the Home Repairs and Accessibility Modifications Program

The Home Repairs and Accessibility Modifications housing program can be found through several different sources. For example:

Ohio Housing Trust Fund's Request-for-Proposals and Community Housing Improvement Programs (call telephone number: 614-466-2285, for a list of programs).

Office of Community Services of the Ohio, Department of Development (call telephone number: 614-466-6207, for the Community Action Agency in your county).

Pros and Cons of the Program

The Pros of the Home Repairs and Accessibility Modifications Program

• can help people with disabilities change or fix their homes so they can continue to live there;
• funding is available throughout the state.

The Cons of the Home Repairs and Accessibility Modifications Program

• is underused;
• is hard to find, mainly because no single agency administers the funds;
• funding that can be used to pay for accessibility modifications is often directed by state and local governments to other programs.

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