Housing

Sixty adults with intellectual disabilities who live in single-family homes in the Owensboro region may be displaced when a housing company affiliated with a state program closes down April 9.

Kentucky is set to receive about $74 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s disaster recovery funds.

Three women who lived in the same housing complex during the December tornado outbreak received travel trailer keys on Mar. 11 as a part of the ongoing work of the Commonwealth Sheltering Program.

A pair of organizations are hoping to build 100 Mayfield homes after the Graves County community was devastated by December’s deadly tornado outbreak.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is continuing to send agents to Home Depot and Walmart stores in three Kentucky cities through March to offer free rebuilding advice and information about FEMA aid following the severe storms in early December.

David Gray and his family were in their mobile home when December’s deadly tornado outbreak hit Dawson Springs.

Graves County churches are using funding collected in the wake of December’s tornado outbreak to build temporary housing for displaced tornado survivors, hoping to have their first “tiny home” occupied by early February.

The rebuilding of the Patterson’s home is the first for Homes and Hope for Kentucky, an organization of community stakeholders in Mayfield aiming to rebuild homes for 100 displaced Mayfield residents, along with making home repairs for many others.

The deadline has passed for the remaining families at a mobile home community on Dickerson Pike to move out. And displaced residents are facing more than just financial hardships as their community is split up.

Residents in several western Kentucky counties impacted by last month’s tornado outbreak could be eligible to receive trailers, RVs or manufactured homes as temporary housing through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.