Why are Rebuilding Together Montgomery County services needed?
Twenty-two percent of all Americans are shelter poor, meaning they cannot afford basic minimum necessities after paying housing costs. Therein lies the paradox: they have a home, but cannot afford to maintain it. Many of our neighbors have worked hard all their lives and have been able, physically and financially, to repair their own homes for most of that time. Now due to illness, aging, inflation, or any number of uncontrollable causes, they are unable to do the repair work themselves and their homes have become unsafe, unhealthy and unliveable. In Montgomery County, there are 12,104 very low-income owner occupied households of which 5,761 are elderly persons. Montgomery County Consolidated Plan states that 34% of these elderly homeowner have some sort of house problems. Problems defined as, paying too much for housing costs, lack of complete kitchens, and/or lack of plumbing Overall, the plan indicated that a high number of Montgomery County residents are suffering a housing cost bu
