Home repair van at construction site

Affordable home repairs preserve homeownership in Thurston County.

Our construction staff and volunteers can help qualified homeowners with a variety of repairs and accessibility improvements. We focus on health and safety issues like rot repair, plumbing, and wheelchair ramps.

Our Home Repair program helps provide stability for homeowners by preserving older homes for safer, easier maintenance.

We may be able to help with:

  • Wheelchair ramps

  • Walkways

  • Exterior doors

  • Siding

  • Leaks and rot

  • Bathroom accessibility

  • Other health and safety issues

We cannot provide roof repairs at this time.

How do I get started?

Our Home Repair program is dependent on financial qualification, need, and the availability of funding.

Here’s how the process works:

  • 1

    Apply

  • 2
    Financial review
  • 3

    Home assessment

  • 4

    Contract

  • 5

    Payment

  • 6

    Home repair

How do I qualify?

Applicants must meet seven criteria to qualify for our Home Repair program.

  • 1. Your home must be located in Thurston County. You must have lived in the home at least one (1) year and have no intent to sell the home for the next five (5) years.

  • 2. You meet the income guidelines. Our repair program serves homeowners who earn less than 80% of the Area Median Income. (Some grants have lower percentage requirements.)

  • 3. You need improved housing. Your home is causing negative effects on your health, safety, or financial well-being.

  • 4. You are unable to afford and/or perform the repairs yourself but are willing to contribute a percentage of the repair costs.

  • 5. You have homeowner’s insurance and are current on all mortgage payments.

  • 6. You are willing to partner with Habitat. You must provide copies of all required documentation, and be honest and cooperative with us.

  • 7. Understand that repairs may be completed by our dedicated volunteers and staff and/or other community members or organizations.

Here are answers to the questions we hear most.

 Yes, our program does have a repayment component, all repair costs are subsidized by grant funding and we offer no interest payment plans with affordable monthly payments.

 

Critical Home Repair services are made possible thanks to the hard work of our volunteers and donors under the supervision of experienced Habitat for Humanity construction staff.

Larger, more complicated projects or those that require skilled labor may be conducted by licensed subcontractors and Habitat for Humanity construction staff.

Yes. The home must be owner-occupied.

Yes, depending on the grant funding we have available at the time.

Habitat is not alone in this work. Other agencies in Thurston County providing home repairs and weatherization include Rebuilding Together Thurston County and the Community Action Council of Lewis, Mason, and Thurston counties.

Habitat asks for tax and other income verification documents to fulfill our grant obligations. We are only allowed to serve homeowners whose income does not exceed 80% of the Area Median Income (AMI) for Thurston County. If we do not verify income, we could lose our funding, and the program would cease to exist.

As part of your partnership with Habitat, we ask that you serve as an ambassador for our organization and the repair programs we provide. You can tell your story better than anyone else, and you can help reach other homeowners who may need our services. You can also help us attract large donors to the program by allowing us to showcase your project.