LINCOLN — Forty affordable housing projects across the state, from Auburn to Bertrand and Ewing to Omaha, will share in nearly $17.5 million in state housing grants, the Nebraska Department of Economic Development announced Wednesday.

The grants, which are annual awards from the 26-year-old Nebraska Affordable Housing Trust Fund, will help develop 381 housing units, both rental and single-family owned, as well as aid housing rehabilitation and provide financial help for first-time homebuyers.

Lynn Kohout, DED’s director of housing, said that providing good housing is a “catalyst for business and community development” in rural and urban areas of the state.

The programs that were awarded funds (multiple awards implies different project/type and/or service area):

• Central Nebraska Economic Development Inc.: $599,500
• Central Nebraska Economic Development Inc.: $599,500
• City of Auburn: $530,000
• City of Burwell: $520,650
• City of David City: $575,600
• City of Fremont:  $310,500
• Fairbury Housing Authority: $40,000
• Fillmore County Development Corp. $575,600
• Habitat for Humanity of Omaha Inc.: $520,000
• Habitat for Humanity of Omaha Inc.: $580,000
• Habitat for Humanity of Omaha Inc.: $580,000
• Habitat for Humanity of Omaha Inc.: $40,000
• Habitat for Humanity of Omaha Inc.: $520,000
• Hastings Community Redevelopment Authority: $500,000
• High Plains Community Development Corp. Inc.: $300,000
• Holy Name Housing Corp.: $525,000
• Holy Name Housing Corp.: $525,000
• Midwest Housing Initiatives: $445,387
• inCOMMON Community Development: $40,000
• Nebraska Housing Resource: $580,000
• NeighborWorks Lincoln: $512,700
• NeighborWorks Lincoln: $528,900
• NeighborWorks Lincoln: $536,125
• NeighborWorks Northeast Nebraska: $580,000
• NeighborWorks Northeast Nebraska: $599,500
• Omaha 100: $580,000
• Project Houseworks: $578,500
• Project Houseworks: $40,000
• Purpose Transitional Housing Ministries: $40,000
• Seventy Five North Revitalization Corp.: $500,000
• Seward County Housing Corp.: $610,000
• Canopy South: $40,000
• Southwest Nebraska Community Betterment Corp.: $356,000
• Spark Capital: $40,000
• Talented Tenth Group: $510,000
• Thayer County Economic Development Alliance: $520,000
• Three Rivers Housing Development Corp.: $523,500
• Three Rivers Housing Development Corp.: $523,500
• Village of Bertrand: $525,000
• Village of Ewing: $431,640

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