{"id":13588,"date":"2011-09-16T03:58:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T08:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=13588"},"modified":"2011-09-16T03:58:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T08:58:18","slug":"vw-county-city-receive-chip-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/09\/16\/vw-county-city-receive-chip-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"VW County, city receive CHIP funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Van Wert independent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Van Wert County and the City of Van Wert received $1 million total in Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP) grant money, while Paulding County was awarded $500,000 and Putnam County received a grant of $544,000 in the latest round of CHIP awards. A grant of $500,000 was also received by Mercer County.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio Department of Development approved more than $34.6 million through the program. The grants will benefit 71 eligible Ohio communities that are interested in undertaking housing-related activities, including necessary infrastructure improvements. The Department\u2019s Office of Housing and Community Partnerships administers the program.<\/p>\n<p>The grants are awarded competitively and encourage a flexible, community-wide approach to the improvement and provision of affordable housing for low- and moderate-income persons, and help develop local administrative capacity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The investments being made today will have a lasting impact on Ohio communities by improving the look of blighted homes and residents&#8217; living conditions,&#8221; said Christiane Schmenk, director of the Ohio Department of Development. &#8220;These grants support vital housing repairs and improvements, improving entire neighborhoods.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent COLUMBUS &#8212; Van Wert County and the City of Van Wert received $1 million total in Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP) grant money, while Paulding County was awarded $500,000 and Putnam County received a grant of $544,000 in the latest round of CHIP awards. A grant of $500,000 was also received by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 01:34:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}