Bessemer Home Repairs

Bessemer is one of five cities and two counties in Alabama that receives Community Development Block Grant funding each year for home repairs for qualified homeowners. The program alos provides assistance to the elderly and disabled thourgh deferred loans and also for medical related and emergency related home repairs in the form of grants. Loans are up to $35,000 for the qualified homeowners with an interest rate of 3%. For the disabled there is an emergency grant program and improvements can reach $5,000 and does not have to be repaid.