Home Improvement Grants Help Crystal Residents with Aging Housing Stock
4:27 PM Thursday, September 28, 2023
Homeowners in Crystal can fix up their house for less thanks to a program that’s been around for years, but one you may not know about.
Crystal’s Home Improvement Grant program allows homeowners to fix up their house at a discounted price, thanks to funds collected through taxes and tax increment funds.
Crystal Community Development Director John Sutter said the program began in the 1990s. At that time, city leaders realized most of the city’s housing was built around the same time: between 1940 and 1970. Because of that, buildings were also beginning