As part of a statewide allocation of $22.6 million in grants that will help create affordable housing, deliver social services and revive downtown communities covering 1,166 different projects, more than $2 million will be going to communities in western New York state to improve homes and help create a path for homeownership.

Announced Dec. 17 at the state’s Rochester Housing, Community and Faith-Based Development Conference, over $1.6 million comes through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program to replace manufactured homes in Allegany and Chautauqua Counties, as bizjounals tells MHProNews.

Located in far western New York, the Town of Ellington will receive $426,000 and the other town in Chautauqua County, the Village of Lakewood, will garner $492,500. Allegany County, in southwestern New York, will receive $850,000.

As MHProNews reported Sept. 14, 2015, $850,000 in CDBG grants was awarded St. Lawrence County, NY, also to replace some manufactured homes, as well as to rehab older homes with an emphasis on energy efficiency upgrades. ##

(Photo credit: Champion Homes–new manufactured home on its way to a new site)

Article submitted by Matthew J. Silver to Daily Business News-MHProNews.