(Atlantic) Southwest Iowa Housing Trust Fund (SWIHTF), a nonprofit fund administered by Southwest Iowa Planning Council (SWIPCO), recently completed the rehabilitation of twelve homes in the southwest Iowa region with a $100,000 grant from Iowa West Foundation awarded in March 2022.
The homes with Iowa West funds were in the cities of Harlan (4 homes), Atlantic (3 homes), Henderson, Clarinda, Shenandoah, Elliott, and Griswold. The total rehabilitation cost for the twelve homes was $203,394 and the Iowa West Foundation funds leveraged $103,394 of other grants from the Iowa Finance Authority and the United States Department of Agriculture.
Erin Hudson, SWIPCO Community Development Director, said all twelve homes met income eligibility requirements to qualify.
SWIPCO routinely provides grant writing and administration services to its member communities in Cass, Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, and Shelby Counties and has brought over $129 million in grants to the region in the last year alone.
