Welcome Home Ohio - Purchasing

The Welcome Home Ohio (WHO) program is designed to provide grants for the purchase of qualifying residential properties, the cost of construction or rehabilitation, or nonrefundable tax credits for qualifying activities.

• Eligible entities are land banks, land reutilizations corporations, electing subdivisions, and qualified non-profit developers
• Grant funds to pay the cost of purchasing qualifying residential property at foreclosure sales after July 1, 2025
• A maximum grant of $100,000 per residential property at foreclosure sales
• $22,812,500 in each fiscal year with the ability to roll funds forward into the next fiscal year

Residential properties purchased with WHO-P funds must be acquired at foreclosure sales and documented with a certificate of sale filed with the court. Properties must have at least 800 square feet of habitable space. Single-family homes and a single unit in a multi-family property both qualify. This includes:

• A single-family house
• One unit of a duplex, triplex, or fourplex
• A townhouse
• A row house
• One condo in a complex/community
• Modular homes
• Manufactured homes
• A residence zoned as mixed-use

Ineligible properties include:

• Rental properties
• Residential properties with more than 10 connected units
• Apartments with more than 10 units
• Commercial property
• Mobile homes