{"id":412628,"date":"2015-10-29T15:49:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T20:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=412628"},"modified":"2015-10-30T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T20:49:05","slug":"usda-announces-housing-repair-grant-for-local-habitat-for-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=412628","title":{"rendered":"USDA Announces Housing Repair Grant for Local Habitat for Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/habitat-for-humanity.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/habitat-for-humanity-163x200.gif\" alt=\"habitat-for-humanity\" width=\"163\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-412629\" \/><\/a>TEMPLE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that USDA is investing $3.7 million to help rural families repair and rehabilitate their homes &#8212; and a Smith County agency is getting a chunk of the money. Habitat for Humanity of Smith County will use a $93,392 grant to rehabilitate 30 homes for very low and low income owner-occupied dwellings.  The funds are being awarded through the Housing Preservation Grant (HPG) program in 46 states and Puerto Rico to support the renovation of 1,147 units. In a news release, Vilsack says many low-income families in rural areas struggle to afford necessary housing upkeep.  He says the grants put properties are in compliance with health and safety codes &#8212; and help people lower their maintenance costs through energy efficiency and weatherization improvements. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEMPLE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that USDA is investing $3.7 million to help rural families repair and rehabilitate their homes &#8212; and a Smith County agency is getting a chunk of the money. Habitat for Humanity of Smith County will use a $93,392 grant to rehabilitate 30 homes for very low &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=412628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USDA Announces Housing Repair Grant for Local Habitat for Humanity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":412629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 17:08:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412631,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412628\/revisions\/412631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/412629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}