The Aspen-Pitkin County Housing Authority Board of Directors sent a new home repairs grant pilot program to the Pitkin Board of County Commissioners and the Aspen City Council for approval.
The program would award grants of up to $5,000 to homeowners to assist with repairing critical damage on their homes. The grants would not need to be repaid, and would only serve as funding assistance and a starting point for a pilot program.
“Aspen has one of the oldest affordable housing inventories in the state and there’s kind of a disconnect between free-market construction and affordable housing owners,” said housing