Affordable Home Repairs Preserve
Homeownership

Our skilled construction staff and volunteers help qualified homeowners who have limited incomes with a variety of repairs meant to preserve the house.

Homeowners are left with a renewed sense of pride and the ability to enjoy their homes in dignity, safety, and health for years to come.

Our Critical Repairs program aims to provide stability for existing homeowners by preserving older homes for safer, easier maintenance.

We facilitate a variety of interior and exterior improvements, including:

  • Steps, porch, or wheelchair ramp construction
  • Walkways
  • Window repair or replacement
  • Exterior door repair or replacement
  • Exterior scraping, caulking, and painting
  • Extensive siding and trim repair or replacement
  • Interior accessibility such as doorways and bathrooms
  • Interior repairs needed for the health and safety of the occupants
  • Other repairs will be considered on a case-by-case basis

How Do I Qualify?

Applicants must meet criteria to qualify for our Critical Home Repair program.

  1. You own and reside in a home located within Clallam County. The property must serve as the primary residence of all owners on the title.
  2. Eligible properties are single-family residences (SFR), manufactured homes, condominiums, townhomes, and duplexes. Mobile homes and rental properties are NOT eligible. Owners of multiple real estate properties are also NOT eligible.
  3. You meet the income guidelines. Our repair program serves homeowners who earn less than 80% of the Area Median Income. (Some grants have lower percentage requirements.)
  4. You need improved housing. Your home is causing negative effects on your health, safety, or financial well-being.
  5. You are unable to afford and/or perform the repairs yourself but are willing to contribute a percentage of the repair costs.
  6. You have homeowner’s insurance and are current on all mortgage payments and property taxes.
  7. You are willing to partner with Habitat. Our programs are built on partnership, and applicants provide “sweat equity” working with Habitat construction staff and volunteers on home repair projects. You must provide copies of all required documentation, be honest and cooperative with Habitat, and complete a minimum of eight hours of sweat equity.
  8. Homeowner must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Legal Resident.
  9. Understand that repairs may be completed by Habitat Clallam’s dedicated volunteers and staff and/or other community members or organizations.
  10. The Homeowner, a household member, or a friend of the homeowner must be onsite and willing to work in an appropriate capacity throughout the duration of the home repairs.

How Do I Get Started?

Our Critical Home Repair program is offered on a first-qualified, first-served basis
and is dependent on financial qualification, need,
willingness to partner with Habitat, and the availability of funding.

Here’s how the process works:

  1. Apply
  2. Financial Review
  3. Home Assessment
  4. Contract
  5. Payment
  6. Construction
  7. Volunteering

Here are answers to the questions we hear most:

Yes, our program does have a repayment component, all repair costs are subsidized by grant funding and we offer no-interest payment plans with affordable monthly payments.

This is a donation of your time. You or a qualifying family member must work alongside Habitat construction staff and Habitat volunteers, either on the work on your home, welcoming volunteers, or other volunteer work on Habitat job sites, in our offices, or in our Stores. A total of 8 hours is required, and can be completed by you and/or a family member.

Critical Home Repair services are made possible thanks to the hard work of our volunteers and donors under the supervision of experienced Habitat for Humanity construction staff.

Larger, more complicated projects or those that require skilled labor may be conducted by licensed subcontractors and Habitat for Humanity construction staff.

Yes. The home must be owner-occupied.

Yes, depending on the grant funding we have available at the time.

Habitat is not alone in this work. Other agencies in Clallam County providing home repairs and weatherization include OlyCAP and Peninsula Housing.

Habitat asks for tax and other income verification documents to fulfill our grant obligations. We are only allowed to serve homeowners whose income does not exceed 80% of the Area Median Income (AMI) for Clallam County. If we do not verify income, we could lose our funding, and the program would cease to exist.

As part of your partnership with Habitat, we ask that you serve as an ambassador for our organization and the repair programs we provide. You can tell your story better than anyone else, and you can help reach other homeowners who may need our services. You can also help us attract large donors to the program by allowing us to showcase your project.

Critical Home Repair – Homeowner Application

If you need assistance, please get in touch with the Family Resource Director at: michellep@habitatclallam.org

Program Requirements

  • This is a repayment program; parties will be responsible for a portion of the cost of the repairs on a payment plan structure.
  • You must be the homeowner and this must be your primary place of residence.
  • Interested parties must be below 80% AMI as defined by HUD. Habitat will calculate this for you, based on the income information provided within this form.
  • There will be an in-home inspection completed as part of the application process.
  • It is required to engage in a minimum of 8 hours “sweat equity” per adult in the home.