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14/03/2024Home Repair Contractors

Home repair scam artists targeting senior citizens in Queens

Home repair scammers target seniors in Queens

Authorities are issuing a new warning for seniors in several Queens neighborhoods, after several people were targeted by home repair scammers who pose as contractors offering to do repairs, but instead of fixing the homes, make off with thousands of from unsuspecting owners.

NEW YORK – Authorities are issuing a new warning to seniors in several Queens neighborhoods, after people were targeted by home repair scammers who pose as contractors offering to do repairs.

However, instead of fixing the homes, the scammers make off with thousands of dollars from unsuspecting owners.

Kathryn Saffran,

12/03/2024Home Repair Contractors

Lummis Teams Up With Fetterman To Cut Red Tape For Federal Home Repair Money

There is still a little bipartisanship here and there on Capitol Hill, and U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis is part of it as a co-sponsor of legislation with U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pennsylvania, that would establish a five-year pilot program to make it easier for homeowners to get help with critical home repairs.

The Whole-Home Repairs Act would allow low-and moderate-income homeowners and small landlords to apply for federal grants and loans to make needed repairs to their properties.

As a ranking member of the Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation and Community Development, Lummis frequently deals with issues involving a nationwide housing

APCHA opens up home repair grant program to Category 4 homeowners

Steven Miller, a homeowner at Burlingame Ranch Phase I with his wife and their two kids, took advantage of the APCHA Essential Repairs Pilot Grant Program to address plumbing issues in one of the bathrooms in their home.
Steven Miller/Courtesy photo

Affordable housing owners in a higher income bracket are eligible for reimbursement funds from APCHA to address unit-specific health and safety concerns.

Homeowners up to APCHA income Category 4 are eligible for reimbursement funds from the housing authority to address unit-specific health and safety concerns. The pilot program launched in October 2023 and expanded to Category 4 earners with

Be the Gift helps single moms, widows with home repair projects

By Shelley Widhalm
The Surveyor

Be The Gift doesn’t want single mothers and widows in northern Colorado to have a home repair go unattended when there are dozens of volunteers willing to do the work.

“They have to allocate and put more of their resources into their family. Sometimes that leaves their home needing love and care and updating,” said Katie Johnson, development and event director for Be the Gift, a faith-based nonprofit headquartered in Loveland. “We can come in and fill that gap for them.”

Be the Gift provides home repairs and handyman services to female homeowners at no

Off-duty firefighters helping with home repairs

Firefighter Handyman launched in January — dispatching off-duty firefighters to handle home repairs across the Twin Cities metro area.

PLYMOUTH, Minnesota — Firefighters are used to being on-call to serve the community. Now those skills are being used while off-duty, to help in a different way.

Curtis Smith spent 18 years as a firefighter, mostly with the city of Golden Valley.

“About five years ago I just thought, ‘These people are so talented. They’re such wonderful people. They’re so trustworthy. This really calls for some sort of business,'” Smith recalled.

Firefighter Handyman launched in January — dispatching off-duty firefighters to