Scioto County Commissioner Bryan Davis praised the County’s CHIP program for helping residents hold onto their homes. “This is a great program to help low-income individuals, in many cases senior citizens, stay in their owner-occupied homes. We can come up with the funding to do a new roof or new windows or something that helps improve the home.”
If you live in Scioto County and your home needs repairs that you can’t afford, the CHIP (Community Housing Improvement Program). CHIP is a state program from the Ohio Development Services Agency.
“We’ve helped dozens and dozens of people every year,” Davis said. “We do this with the City of Portsmouth and it’s pretty much evenly distributed throughout the city and county. We have literally done millions and millions and millions of dollars worth of CHIP programming.”
Davis said most of the contractors used through the program are local. “It makes it to where people can stay in their homes and have a safe home.”
Money is available for both emergency repairs and home rehab.
Emergency items are immediate repairs and items like adding handicapped accessibility, electrical tap-ins, well and septic repairs or replacements, and lead paint removal. Davis said a third-party selects which homes will receive grants and loans from the program.