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A community outreach group at St. Martha's Episcopal Church is encouraging low-income residents who are unable to make home repairs to apply for assistance.
The Emergency Home Repair Committee works with the First State Resource Conservation and Development Council to eliminate housing conditions that present an immediate health and safety risk. About 20 volunteers work to repair heating, plumbing and electrical problems.
Fred Traute, RCD housing program director, said about 60 percent of people the nonprofit serves are either elderly, disabled or both, and about 65 percent of the properties are mobile homes, most of which are in Sussex County.
"For a lot of the people whose homes we work on, the average income of those folks is $13,500 a year," he said. "If they lose their home or it becomes uninhabitable, they have no place to go."
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