FRANKFORT - The Kentucky Housing Corp. oration has awarded two Northern Kentucky low-income housing agencies $414,000 to repair and build homes for the poor and homeless.

        The Northern Kentucky Housing and Homeless Coalition, Inc., a non--profit homeless advocacy group, will spend $364,000 to build eight two-bedroom apartments in Elsmere for people who are both homeless and disabled.

        People Working Cooperatively, Inc., a Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Kentucky based non-profit group, will use $50,000 to help low-income and disabled homeowners make repairs.

        “The $50,000 grant we got is wonderful, but it is just scratching the surface,” said Jock Pitts, president of People Working Cooperatively.

        Mr. Pitts said compared to Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky housing agencies have more trouble finding sources offor funding.

        PWC had a budget of about $6.1 million last year, but it was only allowed to use only about $1 million in Northern Kentucky, he said. Most of the Ohio sources do not permit the agency to spend the money outside the state.

        That means 542 households were repaired in Northern Kentucky, compared with to 3,348 in Greater Cincinnati.

        “The dollars that we have are not proportionate to the people that live here,” he said.

        PWC receives funding for Northern Kentucky projects from the Kentucky Housing Corp.,oration, Kenton, Campbell and Boone counties, Cinergy Corp., and United Way.

        Greater Cincinnati receives money from Cinergy Corp., United Way, Ohio, Hamilton County, the cCity of Cincinnati and individual communities, Mr. Pitts said.

        For the homeless coalition, a lack of funding resources means it can only provide housing only to people who are both homeless and disabled.

        Coalition chairwoman Mari Kass said the group is trying to find more resources to help the “working poor” obtain housing.

        She said the coalition started building homes two years ago because there were no non—profit housing development agencies in Northern Kentucky.

        “There's a lack of non-profit developers,” she said. “It's tough because you've got to get so many sources together for one project.”

        The Kentucky Housing Corp. oration gave about $8.3 million to housing agencies across the state for similar projects. Spokeswoman Kim Lyon said the corporation received about 80 applications for funding and fulfilled about half the requests.

        Money from the corporation comes from several state, federal and corporate sources.

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