The city of Bowling Green has awarded a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant to Habitat for Humanity. The federal funds will be used to build out infrastructure in an affordable housing community.
Habitat for Humanity is the developer of Durbin Estates west of downtown Bowling Green.
Brent Childers is the city’s director of neighborhood and community services. He said funding the infrastructure project in Durbin Estates will make it possible for more people in the local workforce to live within the city limits.
“There’s not enough volume on the housing market right now to keep up. So things that are out there are selling, so that drives the price up. So if you’re on the lower end of that economic scale that makes it harder to secure an actual home ownership opportunity,” said Childers, “And so what this allows us to do is create opportunities that otherwise would not be there.”
Durbin Estates is a “green community” so energy efficient designs will add to the affordability of home ownership.