{"id":739805,"date":"2018-09-10T11:32:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T16:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=739805"},"modified":"2018-09-11T11:32:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T16:32:06","slug":"smith-county-habitat-seeking-veterans-to-benefit-from-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=739805","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Habitat Seeking Veterans to Benefit from Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/09\/habitat-for-humanity-163x200.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-739806\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Smith County Habitat for Humanity has received a $150,000 grant from the Texas Veterans Commission Fund for Veterans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Assistance. According to a Habitat news release, the grant will be used to provide critical home repairs for veterans and surviving spouses of veterans through Smith County Habitat&#8217;s critical repair program. Repairs will assist veterans in making their homes accessible, healthy, and safe. Repairs typically involve installing wheelchair ramps, making kitchen cabinets accessible, installing new floors that are level and safe, making accessible doorways, and making bathrooms accessible. <!--more-->   <\/p>\n<p>Any veteran or surviving spouse in need of critical home repair and\/or modification and who lives in Anderson, Cherokee, Henderson, Rusk, Smith, Van Zandt, or Wood county is eligible to apply for assistance. Applicants must meet the grantor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s requirements as well as Smith County Habitat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s requirements for assistance. Call 903-595-6630 for more details or to make an appointment with a grant specialist. From 2014-2017, Smith County Habitat received 3 grants from the Texas Veterans Commission totaling $450,000 and completed 57 projects impacting veterans and their families. With the newly awarded grant, Smith County Habitat estimates repairing the homes of 24 veterans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Smith County Habitat for Humanity has received a $150,000 grant from the Texas Veterans Commission Fund for Veterans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Assistance. According to a Habitat news release, the grant will be used to provide critical home repairs for veterans and surviving spouses of veterans through Smith County Habitat&#8217;s critical repair program. Repairs will assist veterans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=739805\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Habitat Seeking Veterans to Benefit from Grant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":739806,"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-739805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 10:57:24","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\/739805","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739807,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739805\/revisions\/739807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/739806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}