KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Kalamazoo County has been awarded an $18.9 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to make homes more energy efficient.
Climate stability coordinator Taylor Van Winkle says it will be funneled to agencies that are already working to upgrade the housing stock.
Van Winkle says they will not only be improving homes, but training people to do more of the work.
Van Winkle thinks it’s that comprehensive approach, and the availability of those agencies that helped win the grant.
County Administrator Kevin Catlin says it will help people stay in their homes.
Van Winkle says only about one in five communities that applied for the EPA grants got them.
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