Riley Students Receive Grant to Build Home
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe Now466 Works, a community development corporation, has been nominated for a federally-funded $125,000 Community Development Block Grant from the city of South Bend. The money will allow students from Riley High School’s Construction Trades Program to build a home for a lower income family in South Bend’s southeast neighborhood.
The project has partnered with the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Civic Innovation (CCI), Southeast Organized Area Residents, Neighborhood Development Associates and the South Bend Community School Corporation.
The grant is designed to balance the market value and material value of the home so that the organization can work on the home and the buyer can afford to live there.
Notre Dame News recently reported that 466 Works will transfer one of its 20 vacant lots in the southeast neighborhood to the school corporation for $1 to head up the project. The other lots will remain available for upcoming development, either in collaboration with the school projects or with other community partners.
Read more about the project from Notre Dame News by clicking here.