Habitat offers repair program

Kootenai Valley Partners Habitat for Humanity is currently seeking applications to apply for the Brush With Kindness program geared toward providing external home repairs to low income homeowners. 

Kootenai Valley Partners took on this program in 2014, repairing a Libby home in need of a new paint job. Kootenai Valley Partners Habitat for Humanity is hoping to select two to three individuals or families for this spring/summer who own, not rent, homes that are in need of external repairs, such as windows, siding, painting, roofing or yard work. Volunteers and homeowners work in partnership on the repairs; no project should take more than two weeks to complete.

Just as Habitat for Humanity builds homes with low income families offering a “hand up not a hand out,” homeowners will be responsible for the cost of the materials used to make the needed repairs. Short term, no-interest loans will be available to those selected so as not to be a cost burden.  

Applications must be returned by March 1, 2016, and will then be screened by affiliates of the local Habitat for Humanity. Homeowners will be selected based on financial and physical needs, as well as the amount of work needing to be done. Applications are available at senior citizens centers, libraries, doctors’ offices, VFW’s and other social service agencies in the Libby and Troy areas.