Elderly citizens and their families can struggle to find suitable and affordable housing. To make things harder, senior citizens might have particular needs a normal home can’t satisfy. Government and charitable agencies provide grants to qualified senior citizens to help them locate a suitable home or adapt their present house for their requirements. For instance, senior citizen grants can help older applicants make modifications to stairs in their home to accommodate disabilities.
Housing Choice Vouchers
The Department of Housing and Urban Development presents senior citizens with low and low incomes aid to seek out safe and sanitary housing through its housing choice voucher program. The program provides participants with vouchers they can use to cover any housing they choose as long as it complies with HUD health and security standards. This permits senior citizens to search for housing outside of subsidized housing projects that may not supply the living conditions they need.
Public Housing
Public housing is a government program designed to give low income households, the elderly and individuals with disabilities help in finding a safe and decent place to live. Elderly taxpayers with incomes lower than 80 percent of the median income of the city or county can apply for a few of those over 1.2 million homes in the public housing program.
Home Improvement and Repair Loans and Grants
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) helps senior citizens in rural areas who can’t manage a USDA low-interest loan by giving grants of up to $7,500 to repair and enhance their homes. Eligible applicants must prove their home is in urgent need of repairs and improvements to remove a health and safety hazard, or even to allow accessibility for an older or handicapped relative.