Chautauqua Home Rehabilitation & Improvement Corp

Chautauqua county has the highest percentage of pre-1940 housing in the nation. . It has the lowest median income of any county in New York state.
Chric provides help to low-income and elderly households to live in adequate and affordable housing, largely through grants.
Provide low-cost loan capital and grants for transportation to families moving off the public welfare system to self-sufficiency.
Chric provides neighborhood revitalization activity in Dunkirk and Jamestown through an acquisition, rehab, re-sale program taking "the worst house on the block", rehabilitating it to improve the surrounding neighborhood and create an ownership opportunity for low to moderate-income families.
Receive two HUD youth-build grants to help low-income high school dropouts with skills development.
Chric helps families build wealth and independence through homeownership education.