New Hampton to Receive $60K USDA Housing Grant

The City of New Hampton has been awarded a USDA grant to help repair housing for over a half-dozen very low-income homeowners.

Theresa Greenfield, USDA Rural Development State Director in Iowa, announced the grant of almost $61,000 for New Hampton on Monday (12.11). The funding will be used to help rehabilitate housing owned and occupied by very-low income people. 

The project will repair furnaces, plumbing, flooring, windows, roofing, siding, and electrical systems, plus install or repair accessibility features such as ramps and accessible bathroom fixtures. Once completed, the project will help eliminate health and safety hazards in homes and will improve the living conditions of seven homeowners in New Hampton.

The only other grant awarded in Iowa was over $101,000 to the Region XII Council of Governments to repair and rehabilitate homes and living conditions of 15 low-income homeowners in rural Audubon, Carroll, Crawford, Greene, and Sac counties.

Funding comes through the Housing Preservation Grant program, with the investments part of President Biden’s commitment to advance equity for all, including those who have been historically underserved, marginalized and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality.