Neighborhoods flourish when the housing is good, and good neighborhoods mean healthy communities.

Working with Central Pennsylvania's counties, communities, housing agencies, and financial institutions, SEDA-COG helps improve housing opportunities for limited income families and the elderly.

Projects include:

• Housing rehabilitation
• Berwick
• Danville
• Jersey Shore
• Juniata County
• Lock Haven
• Mount Carmel Borough
• Mount Carmel Township
• Snyder County
• State College
• South Williamsport
• Sunbury
• Apartment buildings for elderly housing
• Dalmatia (lower Northumberland County)
• Danville
• Montoursville
• Selinsgrove
• Homeownership initiatives in cooperation with local banks

Specific program services include:

• Needs analyses
• Preparation of grant applications and project funding packages
• Grant administration
• Project development and management
• SEDA-COG Housing Development Corporation
• Basic Home Improvement Program
• Housing rehabilitation

Additional assistance may be available from the following:

• Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development
• Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency
• Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
• U.S. Department of Agriculture-Rural Housing Service
• Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh