NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Help is available for residents with mobility difficulties who want to stay in their homes.
Michaela Grady, a housing planner with Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, gave a presentation at the City Council’s Tuesday meeting on the Home Modification Loan Program that provides zero-interest loans to make homes more accessible to aging and disabled residents.
A BRPC representative will be North Adams Public Library on Thursday, Dec. 11, from 1 to 4 and Friday, Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to provide technical assistance filling out an application to the program.
Councilor Andrew Fitch asked for the presentation based on what he’d been hearing in the community.
“I’ve heard from a lot of community members concerns around keeping disabled or elderly people in their homes, in their home community, and the challenges that are associated with that,” he said. “So when I learned about the Home Modification Loan Program through Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, I was really excited to have them come in and just present about this, because it sounds like a great program to me.”
Grady said the state-funded program provides zero-percent deferred loans to homeowners and 3 percent deferred loans to landlords to modify housing to allow for people to stay in their homes longer.