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SOUTH DAKOTA (KELO)– Affordable housing has been a constant concern in KELOLAND over the past few years as rising interest rates make home ownership difficult for many, especially first time homebuyers. In tonight’s Your Money Matters, South Dakota’s Housing Authority’s new grant program designed to help take away some of those barriers.  It’s called Grants […]

A state board endorsed a rule change this week that would let Native American tribes access state housing infrastructure funding, but the change comes so late in the process that all the grants are already awarded and only loans remain. The Housing Infrastructure Financing Program is a $200 million pool of state and federal money […] The post Rule change allows tribes to access state housing funds, but it comes too late for grants appeared first on South Dakota Searchlight.

South Dakota Housing launched its Grants for Grads program Friday, aiming to help college and technical-college graduates purchase their first home in South Dakota.

South Dakota Housing will launch its Grants for Grads program Friday, aiming to help college and technical-college graduates purchase their first home in South Dakota. The program is available “for a limited time.” The program existed under former Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s administration in an effort to attract workers to the state, but ended in 2019, […] The post South Dakota Housing launches homebuying assistance program for recent grads appeared first on South Dakota ...

The homes built by inmates and sold to income-eligible South Dakotans will cost more come Friday, but the price hike is lower than it has been for the last three

The program is a $200 million pool of state/federal money designed to ease the burden of high inflation for homebuilders in a state with a high need for workforce housing.

A bill is moving through the legislature aiming to give tribal entities access to a pot of housing infrastructure dollars.

PIERRE — South Dakota Housing’s Board of Commissioners recently awarded nearly $30 million to assist South Dakotans with newly constructed multifamily housing, single family housing, multifamily rehabilitation and housing infrastructure.

The project plan calls for a three-story apartment building containing 35 housing units for individuals and families at or below 60 percent of the area median income.

{KXLG -Watertown, SD} Several development projects within Watertown, SD, received official approval of infrastructure grants awarded by the South Dakota Housing’s Board of Commissioners this week.