Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity
has been selected to participate in Repair Corps, a veterans-support initiative
of Habitat for Humanity International and The Home Depot Foundation. The Repair
Corps program helps low-income veterans make much-needed repairs to their homes
- from roofing, electrical, caulking and weather stripping to installing
wheelchair ramps and remodeling bathrooms for accessibility.
Asheville Area Habitat is one of 84 Habitat
affiliates selected to participate in this program. Repair Corps is designed under the same model as new homes built
with Habitat families where the veteran will repay the 0% interest loan
necessary for these repairs. For local program and qualification information
visit ashevillehabitat.org.
“We are excited to participate in Habitat for
Humanity’s Repair Corps program and we
are grateful to The Home Depot Foundation for funding this project,” said Kit Rains, Development Director for Asheville Area
Habitat. “It is truly an honor to work in
partnership with former service men and women and their families.”
As a participant in the program’s pilot phase, Asheville
Area Habitat partnered with local veteran Raymond Cole earlier this year
to repair his home of thirty seven years. Work included remodeling the bathroom by widening the doorframe and
replacing a decades-old claw-foot tub with a handicap accessible shower. Other
repairs included repairing a hole in a ceiling, raising up a problematic
portion of the roof, replacing windows and rebuilding stairs. New shingles and
gutters were also installed.
Like
the homeownership program, the home repair program relies heavily on community
volunteers. To learn about volunteering on a home repair project, visit ashevillehabitat.org.
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