Rebuilding Together Offers Support to Senior Home Owners | Local News

LEVY COUNTY — Homeownership is quite pricey. Seniors in individual who have properties can get overwhelmed with the repairs they require to keep in their personal dwelling. Rebuilding Alongside one another is stepping up to assist in Levy County.

The firm has viewed great success in Alachua County. According to RD Bonnaghan, govt director of Rebuilding Collectively of North Florida (aka Rebuild), the Levy County growth is one of several projects they have on the horizon.

In Levy County, Rebuild has gained two grants for really specific requires. One is for developing capability, which allows them to employ employees and protected business house in Levy. They are at the moment arranging to track down their satellite business in Bronson. The other grant arrives from the United States Department Housing and Urban Improvement (HUD), and is centered on “older-grownup dwelling modifications” and resembles an accessibility program.

“We would evaluate the households of more mature grownups in terms of getting old-in-location and well being-and-protection from an accessibility perspective,” Bonnaghan said. “We never, at this time, have funding to do plumbing, roofing, people sorts of things, but we have a good chunk of funds to do perform.”

“We’re doing the job specifically with an occupational therapist, as aspect of the HUD specifications, who will evaluate the residences we obtain in Levy County and supply recommendations,” he stated. “And because it is a HUD grant, we will need to agreement with certified and basic contractors to do all the repair operate.”

Bonnaghan is searching to join with neighborhood typical contractors. And they are invited to ship a cover letter and resume to him at [email protected]. They are organizing to finish 35 tasks above the upcoming two many years.

Bonnaghan feels strongly that for the challenge to be profitable, it needs to be Levy County based. Rebuild a short while ago recruited Natalie Thomas of Miller Realty to their board. Thomas is a Levy County native and delivers to the board a neighborhood viewpoint of what this region wishes and needs. Bonnaghan has also related with nearby companies, which include CareerSource and the Tri County Local community Source Centre.

Rebuild is in search of a Rural Application Supervisor to kick-start off their Levy County business. For a lot more info, get hold of [email protected].

“We do not want to be outsiders coming into Levy County, telling you what you need in terms of housing,” Bonnaghan said. “We actually want this to be a grass-roots, ground-up motion. We would appreciate for our supervisor to be a Levy indigenous.”

Bonnaghan himself understands the importance of the arms-on function that Rebuild does. He grew up in a church and family that highly valued the great importance of supporting many others. In significant college and college, he seeked out volunteer alternatives on his possess.

As a university senior at the University of Florida, Bonnaghan was hunting for his following ways in life. While on a mission vacation with his father in New Orleans, he observed his way when he fulfilled volunteers for AmeriCorp. Bonnaghan went house and signed up. Following a pair of yrs in nationwide support, he returned house to Gainesville and uncovered Rebuilding Jointly.

“People need to treatment for folks that need to have to be cared for,” Bonnaghan explained. “We’re on the lookout to get to work shifting people’s life. The revenue is readily available. And we can commence the dwelling assessments as before long as we find applicants.”

Programs for older older people who want to utilize are offered at www.rebuildingtogetherncf.org/use-for-services. For a print duplicate of the software, make contact with Rebuild at 352-373-2573.

For all those who want to discover a lot more, Rebuild will be portion of the Cost-effective Housing Workshop on May 19 in Bronson. In addition, Rebuild would like to make strategic connections with people offering other senior companies and health care businesses that would help them identify probable seniors who would have to have support, and they are invited to make contact with Bonnaghan at rd@ rebuildingtogetherncf.org.