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acutely aware of the need for this program.
Out houses/privies are not a thipg of the past, nor are they a romantic notion from foregone days. The lack of proper sanitary facilities and clean drinking water is a severe threat to the health of the family and their neighbors.
Virginia is second only to Tennessee in the number of households lacking total approved indoor plumbing facilities.
A Virginia Water Project survey noted that 40,000 Virginia households lack the basic human need of safe drinking water and proper sanitary wastewater disposal systems.
Besides the family’s immediate health issues, this issue affects the quality of local ground-well water and stream/river water. To address this issue the Commonwealth of Virginia established the Indoor Plumbing Program in 1990.
The Virginia Department of Housing & Community Development uses federal HOME grants and some state funds to operate the Indoor Plumbing/Rehab Program (IP/R).
The IP/R Program provides low/moderate-income homeowners with zero percent interest installment and deferred loans; and forgivable loans (grants) to install first time indoor plumbing into their homes.
Additional repairs are made to bring the home into compliance with HUD housing quality standards and local building
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