Before & After ~ Affordable Housing Rehabilitation. There is increasing awareness that historic preservation and affordable housing are compatible goals. Many regions with a shortage of housing affordable to working people also have numerous small abandoned houses. These houses can often be rehabbed and sold to new owners when preservation organizations and housing advocates work together.
Bloomington Restorations rehabbed this house with help from a challenge grant from Indiana Landmarks. Founded in 1976, Bloomington Restorations had given loans to help rehab several historic homes when they hired their first executive director in 1999 to be more proactive and expand their scope. Since receiving the grant, they have saved 60+ properties by rehabbing houses for affordable housing and buying endangered buildings to sell to buyers to restore.
Historic preservation is sometimes portrayed as being only for the wealthy, gentrifying neighborhoods and pushing out poor residents, often people of color. While there is some basis for such claims, that is far from the whole story. Preservation is not all about architecturally significant mansions.
“Restoring Your Historic House, The Comprehensive Guide for Homeowners” is filled with information to help restore historic houses.
Signed and personalized copies of the award-winning and bestselling 720-page hardcover book are available directly from the author in our shop, YourHistoricHouse.com/shop/.
Our shop also carries select preservation and restoration titles by other authors.
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