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<br />Bnclosurc #11 <br /> <br />CITY OF MAHTINSVILLE <br />HOUSING REIiABILITATION PROGRAM <br /> <br />PROPOSED POLICY <br /> <br />SECTION I: OVERVIEW <br /> <br />Safe, sound housing is an appropriate goal for every progressive <br />community. Some low and moderate income families have always had <br />difficulty, hov,ever, in obtaining private funds to maintain their homes <br />in standard condition. The result has been the decline of certain <br />housing and neighborhoods and increased health and safety hazards. <br /> <br />Strict code enforcement against low and moderate income property owners <br />and tenants without adequate financial means to maintain their homes is <br />often counter-productive. Such action usually leads to property abandon-- <br />ment, the curtailment of expenditures for basic necessities, or the creation <br />of unmanageable mortgage burdens. Another result: can be the demand for <br />incl'eased subsidized rental housing. To ignore the problem, however, will <br />only lead to further deterioration of the neighborhood and the spread of <br />blight into adjacent areas. <br /> <br />One response to this dilemma is Martinsvillc's proposed Housing Rehabilitation <br />Program (HRP), to be financed with g'rant funds from the U. S. Department <br />of Housing and Urban Development (DHUD). This program will assist eligible <br />owners in two low and moderate income neighborhoods to eliminate code vio- <br />lations and to improve their homes in prescribed ways. <br /> <br />The target neighborhoods have a substantial number of substandard units <br />with serious code violations, and many of the families are headed by elderly <br />persons (49%) or women (33%). Almost 25% of the families have at least one <br />handicapped member, and 75% have at least one Social Security recipient. <br />Almost all of the households are below the low and moderate income limit <br />established by DHUD. <br /> <br />SECTION II: ELIGIBILITY <br /> <br />A. The HRP is limited to housing units in the following <br />neighborhoods: <br /> <br />1. Rahlway and Oneida Streets in north MartinsviIle <br />(Tax map Section 12 {~> & <:~) ); and <br /> <br />2. Top and Marshall Streets, and Pine Hall Road from <br />Yorkshire Hoad west to the City Limits, in west <br />l\IartinsvilJe. (Tax map Section 29 (2" ). <br />\.-,,:... <br /> <br />3. Units on the following adjacent streets may be <br />considered after all elig'ible and psrticipating <br />families on the streets listed above have been <br />served: Lester Lane and Stultz Road (area #1) <br />and [,1itchell and Hobson Streets (area #2). <br />