Community Development

The Venango County Housing Rehabilitation Program

The Venango County Regional Planning Commission administers the Housing Rehabilitation Program. The Program funding is grant-based (as opposed to loans, which need paid back), and is therefore 100% free of cost to eligible applicant homeowners. See below Repair/Replacement Standards for what types of work this program covers.

The primary objective of this program is to ensure a safer, healthier, and less stressful life for the County's homeowners, and to avoid any deferred maintenance that can often put a home on the path to becoming blighted. This program is also a response to a Housing Market Analysis (czbLLC, 2009) which called for initiatives to stabilize the County's market, in part, by rehabilitating at-risk homes.

Eligibility is based on total household income (all household members, age 18 and up). Income-eligibility standards are based on the current year's HUD Income Limits. Eligible applicants must own and live in the home for which they are applying for rehabilitation assistance.

Some documents that will be required during the application phase include: 

• Deed to home, 
• Most recent six (6) months bank statements, 
• Most recent three (3) months pay stubs (or other third-party payment statement, such as Social Security Benefits Statement), 
• Receipts showing local municipal/school taxes are paid to current, 
• Photo ID & Social Security cards (scanned copies to be held on file), 
• Homeowners insurance declaration page, and 
• Asset statements (when necessary)

To apply, click on the application document, below, relevant to where in Venango County you live. Intake applications can be emailed to jsterling@co.venango.pa.us; or printed and mailed to the Venango County Regional Planning Commission, at 1168 Liberty St., PO Box 831, Franklin, Pa., 16323.