JEFFERSON COUNTY, Tennessee — A Southeast Texas non-profit will begin accepting applications for a program that aims to help low-income residents in Hardin, Orange and Jefferson Counties.
Legacy Community Development Corporation will begin accepting waitlist applications for the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, Homeowner Reconstruction Assistance (HRA) program.
Applications will open on February 15, 2023, and will close on March 17, 2023 at 5 p.m.
HRA initiative funds provide the following services:
- Reconstruction of owner-occupied housing on the same site
- New Construction of site-built housing on the same site to replace an existing owner-occupied Manufactured Housing Unit (MHU)
- Replacement and relocation of existing housing located in a floodplain to a new MHU or New Construction of housing on an alternative site
- New Construction or a new MHU to replace a housing unit that has become uninhabitable as a result of disaster or condemnation by local government.
Assistance is available to very low-income and low-income families that currently reside in Hardin, Orange and Jefferson counties, excluding the city limits of Port Arthur and Beaumont, according to a news release from Legacy CDC.
Applicants must be at or below 80% of the Area Median Income (AMI) for their county of residence.
Applications will be selected using a neutral, random selection process and will not be first-come, first-served, according to the release.
The assistance will be in the form of a grant or loan agreement.
For more information about this program, interested parties can call Legacy CDC at 409-832-2723 ext. 72.
