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20 <br />Comprehensive Rehabilitation <br />Funds would provide deferred loans to rehabilitate owner-occupied and rental housing <br />units. Homeowners with incomes less than 80% of median income would be eligible for <br />these loans. <br />Anticipated Beneficiaries: 4 households earning less than 80% of the median <br />income <br />Accomplishments: 4 renovated dwelling units <br />Anticipated Completion Date: September 30, 2004 <br />$150,000 <br />Priority: Facilitate the construction of new or substantially rehabilitated <br />housing units that are affordable to families earning less than 80% of <br />the median family income. <br />Neighborhood Revitalization: <br />Approximately $115,750 will be allocated to continue neighborhood revitalization <br />activities in the Northside and Pine Knolls communities, as well as public housing <br />neighborhoods. Funds could be used for second mortgage assistance,. property <br />acquisition or renovation, code enforcement, demolition, public improvements such as <br />installation of sidewalks or road improvements, or community service activities. <br />Activities must serve households earning less than 80% of the HUD published area <br />median income. <br />Further, $20,000 of these funds will be utilized to expand the Police Department's <br />summer youth work program for youths living in the Pine Knolls, Northside and public <br />housing communities. The youths would work approximately twenty hours per week in <br />various Town Departments. An estimated fifteen to twenty youths could be hired for this <br />program. <br />The remaining funds to focus on improving living conditions in the Sykes Street area of <br />Northside. Efforts will include continuing to work with neighborhood residents, <br />EmPOWERment, Orange Community Housing and Land Trust, and the Sykes Street <br />Steering Committee. Plans are also to continue to work .with the Police Department, <br />Planning, Inspections, and Public Works to improve the neighborhood environment. <br />Specific activities in the Northside area could include acquisition and rehabilitation of <br />housing for homeownership, code enforcement, and where necessary, demolition of <br />unsafe homes, construction and repair of sidewalks, and other public improvements. <br />Anticipated Beneficiaries: 5 households earning less than 70% of the <br />area median income <br />Accomplishments: Acquisition of 5 properties <br />Anticipated Completion Date: June 30, 2005 <br />$115,750 <br />