Habitat Affiliate Pitches Preservation and Repair Partnership as City Considers Using CRA Dollars
Published on Citizens Portal on May 2, 2025.
Danielle Stroud, chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity of Lake and Sumter County, told the City of Eustis commission on May 1 that the affiliate can manage a preservation-and-repair program that focuses on health, safety and accessibility work for low-income homeowners.
Stroud described the affiliate’s typical scope and scale and why she said the program complements building new homes. “We predominantly focus on health, safety and accessibility,” she said. “When we go into a home and we do a scope of work, we are looking for everything, not just what the homeowner has identified as their issue.”
The presentation explained why preservation work matters: maintaining existing affordable housing prevents displacement and preserves housing stock. Stroud said the affiliate is on track this fiscal year to complete about 40 home repairs across Lake and Sumter counties and to finish 18 new homes before its June fiscal-year end. She said the affiliate has invested more than $6,000,000 in local housing solutions over the past five years.
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