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City’s Home Replacement Program Benefits Sahuaro District Family

Occasionally dreams can come true. In a scene similar to “Extreme Makeover” on television, a divorced mother with four daughters who is low to moderate income now has a new manufactured home thanks to Glendale’s Home Replacement Program, which is funded by HOME Investment funds.

The program is coordinated by staff in the Community Revitalization Division of the City of Glendale. It’s designed specifically to serve a focused, geographic area, which includes several mobile home communities. One, Granada Estates, runs along 67th Avenue between Paradise Lane and Greenway Road; and another mobile home subdivision, Casa Campana, is also along 67th Avenue, just south of Bell Road.

Glendale Councilmember Steve Frate proudly presents the keys to a new home to a family, who are residents in his district.

The community benefits greatly from this program because surrounding residents usually start to take pride in their homes, once another one has improved. This encourages a dramatic improvement in the appearance of the surrounding homes. In addition, the project prevents slum and blight and maintains or increases property values in the area. This benefit is combined with providing the owners with a home which is safe and affordable.

Recently Glendale Councilmember Steve Frate proudly presented the keys to her new home to the family, who are residents in his district.

“The city’s mobile home replacement program is an excellent way for residents, who meet the qualifications, to improve their standard of living,” said Councilmember Frate. “The community benefits, too, as an attractive, new home is added to the neighborhood.”

The program required the inhabited manufactured home to be in a state of disrepair, to the point where it was not economically feasible for rehabilitation. To qualify for the program, the owner was required to be of low to moderate income, own their unit and the land attached to the unit.
All the manufactured homes used in the replacement program are purchased using dealers in Glendale. The units are energy efficient and built to meet all the building standards for new construction, but for a lower cost. For residents who do qualify, they have the opportunity to design a home to meet their family’s needs.

During FY 2006-07, the city received approximately $690,327 of HOME funds and an estimated $18,000 of ADDI program funds from Maricopa County. Of this total in HOME funds, $347,300 was allocated to Residential Rehabilitation and Replacement Housing Programs.

The City of Glendale has received more than $53 million in federal funds since FY1977-78, which has helped thousands of residents and leveraged millions in additional funds. This money enables the Community Revitalization Division to provide valuable public services, improve neighborhood conditions, and offer homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income individuals and families, and increase access to safe, decent, and sanitary housing.

Since 1992, the city has received approximately $8,405,437 in HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME)/American Dream Downpayment Initiative (ADDI) funds that are used specifically for housing-related programs. The Maricopa County HOME Consortium oversees the general administration and distribution of HOME/ADDI funds. The Community Revitalization Division oversees the HOME/ADDI programs. The HOME program has funded the construction of many new single-family homes and has helped preserve existing homes.

For more information about the programs offered by the Community Revitalization Division, call 623/930-3670.