Mutual Self-Help Housing Technical Assistance Grants in Michigan

The Mutual Self-Help Housing Technical Assistance Grants program provides grants to qualified organizations to help them carry out local self-help housing construction projects. Grant recipients supervise groups of very-low- and low-income individuals and families as they construct their own homes in rural areas. The group members provide most of the construction labor on each other's homes, with technical assistance from the organization overseeing the project. Very-low-income families living in substandard housing are given first priority for loan assistance. Funds may be used to give technical and supervisory assistance to participating families, help other organizations provide self-help technical and supervisory assistance, recruit families, help them complete loan applications, and carry out other related activities. Funds may not be used to hire people to perform construction work for participants, buy real estate, building materials or other property, pay debts, expenses or costs for the participants, or pay other indirect costs. Applications for this program are accepted through local offices year round on an ongoing basis from October 1 to September 30.