The Hartford Restoration Project was launched back in June. Breyonne Golding, Livable Sustainable Neighborhood Initiative’s Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer, says the program intends to help “local owner-occupants that need assistance with home improvements.”
The first house that has gotten some TLC is on South Whitney Street in the West End.
The pink house stands out on the street, and even when needing a little attention, never fell into the kind of disrepair that we see happen to a number of properties across the city.
The Hartford Restoration Project — a collaboration between offers deferred loans, opening up funds to only those who qualify: non-commercial, small residential (no more than three units), and the property owner must be current on taxes, just to name a few of the stipulations. Unless the owner-occupant moves or sells the property within five years, the loan does not require repayment.
Next up for this project? A house on Kenneth Street in the Barry Square neighborhood.
Right now, LSNI says that they “can only handle one house at a time,” because of staffing, “but it is better than nothing.”
