CADILLAC — Families in the Cadillac and surrounding areas getting more support to make critical repairs to their homes, thanks to the Cadillac Area Habitat for Humanity.
The new initiative called the ‘Priority Home Repair Program’ will help people in Wexford, Osceola, and Missaukee Counties make health and safety repairs to their homes.
The Executive Director Amy Gibbs said the program is an extension of their veteran home repair program after it was discovered there was a need for more support for non-veterans.
Gibbs said it will cover things like a leaking roof, windows, furnaces, septic, lead paint remediation, filtrations issues, anything related to safety and health that will make homes safe for people to stay in.
“We’ve always had the veterans over the past couple years, but never had the ability to help non veterans because the funding wasn’t there. But now it is. So we’re able to help them in the same manner that we were helping veterans before. And it’s just really exciting. We were getting calls just as many for non veterans as for veterans. And so it’s definitely been a need,” said Gibbs.
Gibbs said thanks to a generous $20,000 grant from The Cadillac Rotary Club, they’ll also be starting a ramp program, for anyone that may need the accessibility.
For more information on the requirements to be a part of either of these programs, please click here or call (231) 775-7561.