Welcome Home Ohio - Rehab/Construction (WHO-RC)

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.

Welcome Home Ohio – Rehab/Construction (WHO-RC)

• Eligible entities are land banks, land reutilizations corporations, electing subdivisions, and qulified non-profit developers
• Grant funds to pay the cost of rehabilitation or construction of qualifying residential property
• A maximum grant of $100,000 can be applied to each qualified residential property
• $22,812,500 in each fiscal year with the ability to roll funds forward into the next fiscal year

The rehabilitation or construction of qualifyingt residential properties for all activities funded by WHO must be completed according to all applicable construction and design standards. All rehabilitation and new construction activities completed with WHO funds must be completed to local building code, at minimum.