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by News Department on 06/18/15The Schuylkill County Affordable Housing Trust Fund awarded $161,869 to seven projects throughout the county.
According to the Republican Herald, the county commissioners approved the 2015 funding recommendations Wednesday at a work session. Jeffrey A. Feeser, director of housing at Schuylkill Community Action, said there were 10 requests totaling $299,700.
The Schuylkill County Affordable Housing Trust Fund was established by the county commissioners in 1996 and the Recorder of Deeds office has since collected more than $4.8 million for affordable housing programs that are defined through the state as “any program or project approved by the county commissioners which increases the availability of quality housing, either sales or rental, to any county resident whose annual income is less than the median income of the county.”
