{"id":93377,"date":"2019-07-08T18:37:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T22:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=93377"},"modified":"2021-06-03T21:55:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T01:55:07","slug":"northampton-county-accepting-applications-for-affordable-housing-program-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=93377","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County Accepting Applications for Affordable Housing Program Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO: Lamont McClure &amp; Dept. of Community and Economic Development <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT: Affordable Housing Program Grants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE: Northampton County <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN: July 15\u2013 September 13, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lamont McClure and the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) announce that the County of Northampton will begin accepting applications for 2019 Affordable Housing Program (AHP) grants on July 15th. AHP funds are available to eligible non-profits, public agencies, local governments, government authorities and private, low-income housing providers.<\/p>\n<p>Grants can be used to maintain or increase the availability of quality affordable housing for residents of Northampton County whose annual incomes are below 80% of the household median income for the County using the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development\u2019s Section 8 income limits for 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Proposed projects must fall into one of three categories:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create, retain or improve rental units or owner-occupied housing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Emergency housing services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Transitional housing facilities and affordable housing supportive services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Applications open on July 15th and close September 13, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Details and applications can be found on the Department of Community and Economic Development\u2019s (DCED) webpage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/CMTYECDV\/Pages\/Apply-for-Funding.aspx\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/CMTYECDV\/Pages\/Apply-for-Funding.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nBecky Bartlett<br \/>\nDeputy Director of Administration<br \/>\nNorthampton County Government Center<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><code class=\"code\">-AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-START-<\/code><br \/>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<code class=\"code\">-AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-END-<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/CIPP.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}