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WSOS believes strongly that affordable housing is an essential part of community and individual well-being. We offer housing services to our communities and their members that promote affordability.

Housing and Energy offers services in the following areas. Click on an area to learn more about the service and how WSOS can help you achive your housing energy needs.
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Services for Homeowners

Home Weatherization Assistance Program
Is your house cold in the winter?
Are your heating bills too high?

WSOS’s HWAP program is designed to reduce home heating costs for eligible persons. WSOS will purchase and install the materials to make your home more energy-efficient. Click here to learn all about this program.

Emergency Repair
A program to assist homeowners with homes that have serious health and safety related problems, where full rehabilitation is not the preferred option. A program to assist families where a lack of available cash to correct these kinds of deficiencies is evident.

The program provides emergency grant funds for low-income homeowners with homes containing serious problems representing a health or safety threat to the occupants. (Examples include non-functioning or unsafe furnaces, collapsing foundations, sewage leaks, unsafe hot water tanks, seriously leaking roofs, malfunctioning septic systems.). Priority will be given to very-low income owners, those on fixed incomes, and those with large families.

Although repairs will generally be limited to one system, decisions on actual repairs or replacements will be based on the State of Ohio Residential Rehab Standards.

Private Owner Rehabilitation
A program to address the need for long-term homeowner affordability assistance to existing low - and moderate - income (LMI) residents. This program provides financial assistance to LMI owners with a housing rehabilitation activity designed to correct substandard housing conditions.

Rehabilitation addresses the needs pertaining of low-income owners living in or purchasing substandard dwellings, who lack financial means to pay for the needed improvements. This program activity assists in preventing neighborhood deterioration, eliminates health and safety problems, and boosts equity values for owners. A secondary benefit is to allow elderly owners to remain independent in their homes for as long as they can maintain healthy and vitality.

For more information, contact Hope Kingsborough

Priority Point Rating
Each applicant for the Community Housing Rehabilitation program will have a priority point rating based on the information listed below. An applicant must meet a minimum of 40 points before assistance can be provided. Those applicants earning more than 60 points are defined as high scoring/priority applicants.

Priority Point Rating Scale
Income below 50% of median 10 points
Income between 50% and 80% 5 points
More than 30% of monthly income spent on housing 5 points
Handicapped/disabled 5 points
Household on fixed income 5 points
Single head of household with children 5 points
Presence of child with Elevated Blood Lead Level (EBL) 10 points
Electrical system substandard & needs replacing 10 points
Electrical system substandard, partial upgrade needed 5 points
Roof substandard & needs replacing 10 points
Heating system substandard & needs replacing 10 points
Heating system substandard, repair needed 5 points
Sewer or septic system substandard, needs to be replaced or repaired 5 points
Plumbing system substandard, needs to be replaced or repaired 10 points
Foundation substandard, need repairs 5 points
Home cited for Zoning violation or Health Code Violation 5 points
Fails to meet energy conservation standards 5 points
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