, and include initially targeting 100 single-family units that are least 20 years old.
The goal is to understand the “breadth and depth of capital improvements that may be needed” in these types of units, of which there are at least 675 of them that are 20 years old, according to Diane Foster, interim executive director of APCHA and assistant city manager.
“The intent of this program in particular is simply to look, not do any mitigation, but to put a box around what’s the problem,” she said.
The proposal is in response to a decades-old quandary that affordable housing officials in the upper valley have been dealing with in trying to ensure that when any of the 1,600 ownership units in the taxpayer-subsidized program is sold that basic upkeep of the property has been maintained.