Revitalize CDC highlights housing efforts with local leaders

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Revitalize CDC hosted Secretary of Housing and Livable Communities Edward Augustus along with local executives from healthcare institutes
to highlight regional partnerships.

Since 1992 Revitalize CDC has worked with homeowners, community members, and city officials to renovate, repair, and modify unhealthy homes to improve the well-being of our neighbors, and as they look to expand they look to the state for support.

Secretary of Housing and Livable Communities Edward Augustus, told 22News, “Anytime I get a chance to go out and see firsthand what’s going on in ways that we can continue to partner and be good supporters with our CDC partners on the ground I’m always excited to do that.”

Revitalize CDC works in our communities every day improving the health and well-being of community members by addressing poor housing conditions; performing assessments and making home improvements that allow people to live safely. On Tuesday they were able to highlight the wide array of services they offer to Secretary Edward Augustus.

“Since 1992 we’ve been rehabbing homes for low-income families with children, elderly people with special needs, and military veterans,” states Revitalize CDC CEO, Collen Loveless.

Revitalize CDC provides the community with educational resources on how to reduce triggers for people with conditions like asthma in addition to providing them with critical supplies. Loveless adds, “We do repairs in the home to eliminate those triggers such as mold remediation, pest control, removing carpeting, and replacing that with laminate flooring.”

Loveless told 22News that there is a genuine need for this care in this area and in order to meet the demand this work has to be expanded, “We’re hoping that we can expand our services to India to include more chronic health conditions or more other low-income families in need of these types of services because really knows so much need in the area and throughout the state.”

“We want people to be healthy,” Augustus adds. “We want people to do what they want to be able to do, but we need them to be healthy, and being healthy means a lot of things it means having a healthy stable home. It means having the right nutrition making sure all those basic needs are met so you can live the fullest life.”

Secretary Augustus says that the state is committed to providing them with the necessary funds to fill the gaps where the government programs can’t so that everyone can access care.

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