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Rebuilding Together provides home improvements in partnership with construction professionals, volunteers and other community partners. Our focus is on improvements that will make homes safer and healthier for all residents. The scope of work varies greatly from home to home depending on funding availability and household needs. Click here for more details about the types of improvements we prioritize.

Rebuilding Together’s Safe & Health Home Improvement Program (SHHIP) is currently serving homeowners and community spaces in the following Nashville communities, Greater Bordeaux and Dickerson Pike Corridor .

If you are in need of home repairs and you are not eligible for our current programs, we can share other resources that may be available to you by clicking here.

For Homeowners in Greater Bordeaux or the Dickerson Pike Corridor:

We are currently accepting Initial Screening Forms from homeowners located in our target communities. Information from these forms will guide our release of full applications. Homeowners that appear eligible will receive an application when Rebuilding Together is closer to being able to begin work on their home.

The initial Screening Form for the homeowners located in the Greater Bordeaux and Dickerson Pike Corridor is available here.

RT SAFE & HEALTH HOME IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (SHHIP) ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS 

The applicant must meet ALL the following qualifications at the time of application to RT and while RT is completing repair work at the home:

  1. The home must be with the Dickerson Pike targeted community boundaries.

  2. The homeowner must be willing to comply with program requirements including signing a five-year lien for the

    value of repairs completed at the home.

  3. The applicant must own the home.  If the applicant co-owns the home with another person, they must disclose that information in their application.

  4. The applicant must live in the home.

  5. The applicant must be current on mortgage, home equity loan payments or other debts that are secured by the property and provide proof through documentation or a title search of any resolved debts (if applicable).

  6. The applicant must be current on property taxes for the home. 

  7. The applicant must have a current homeowners insurance policy for the property. 

  8. The home must be a free-standing, single-family home; we are not able to serve rental properties, condos, or mobile homes.  

  9. The applicant or a permanent household resident must meet at least one of the following qualifications:

    • Be 60 years of age or older

    • Be a veteran of the United States Armed Forces (as evidenced by a DD Form 214)

    • Receive Federal disability benefits

  10. The applicant’s household must meet RT’s income guidelines.  Please note that ALL household members, including roommates and extended family members, must provide accurate income information for RT to process an application.  Applicant households with an annual income of up to 80% of HUD’s area median income are eligible for RT’s SHHIP Program.  Applicant households with an annual income of up to 50% of HUD’s area median income will be prioritized for RT’s SHHIP Program.  HUD’s area median income guidelines are calculated annually.  Most recent guidelines are included below.

HUD posts current guidelines at https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il.html.