Home Improvement Grants in Charlotte.
Browse cataloged grants, rebates, loans, and other assistance records for Charlotte, NC. Verify each program's current rules, service area, and status.
The Charlotte, NC directory shows 45 cataloged resources. Of those, 41 are currently open or actionable home improvement or repair assistance records; the largest published amount stored among those 41 records is $450,000, not an estimate of your award. Discovery tags include 18 senior-related records, 11 veteran-related records, and 14 marked with no income limit. These tags do not determine eligibility; verify the complete official rules.
Record set last reviewed 2026-04-03. How we verify our data.
Types of help in this city
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| Funding type | Records | What to verify | Label scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grants | 31 | Repayment, tax, and possible lien terms | Directory classification; confirm official terms |
| Forgivable loans | 6 | Forgiveness schedule, residency, and lien terms | Directory classification; confirm official terms |
| Rebates | 2 | Eligible purchases, upfront payment, and claim timing | Directory classification; confirm official terms |
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City of Charlotte Owner-Occupied Housing Rehabilitation
The City of Charlotte provides deferred forgivable loans to low- and moderate-income homeowners for essential repairs an...
HouseCharlotte Down Payment Assistance Program
HouseCharlotte, administered by DreamKey Partners, offers 0% interest deferred forgivable loans for down payment and clo...
City of Charlotte Neighborhood Matching Grants
The Neighborhood Matching Grants Program awards up to $25,000 to eligible neighborhood organizations to improve the liva...
Mecklenburg County Critical Home Repair Program
Mecklenburg County funds critical home repairs for low- to moderate-income homeowners at no cost through partnerships wi...
Mecklenburg County HOMES, Homeowner Property Tax Relief Grant
The HOMES (Helping Out Mecklenburg's homeowners with Economic Support) program provides grants of 35% of the Mecklenburg...
Habitat Charlotte Region, Critical Home Repair Program
Habitat Charlotte Region provides free critical home repairs to seniors and income-qualified homeowners at or below 50% ...
Rebuilding Together Greater Charlotte, Critical Home Repair
Rebuilding Together Greater Charlotte provides free major home repairs to low-income homeowners in Mecklenburg, Gaston, ...
Rebuilding Together Greater Charlotte, Safe at Home Accessibility Modifications
The Safe at Home program by Rebuilding Together Greater Charlotte installs accessibility modifications at no cost to qua...
Greater Matthews Habitat for Humanity, Critical Home Repair
Greater Matthews Habitat for Humanity offers free critical home repairs to low-income homeowners in Matthews, Mint Hill,...
NC Housing Finance Agency, Urgent Repair Program (URP)
The NCHFA Urgent Repair Program provides deferred, forgivable loans of up to $15,000 for emergency home repairs to very ...
NC Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP)
The NC Weatherization Assistance Program helps low-income households reduce energy costs through comprehensive weatheriz...
NC Home Advantage Mortgage, NCHFA
The NC Home Advantage Mortgage is a competitive-rate first mortgage with down payment assistance up to 5% of the loan am...
NC/Mecklenburg Elderly or Disabled Homestead Exclusion
North Carolina permanently reduces property taxes for homeowners age 65+ or totally and permanently disabled with income...
NC Circuit Breaker, Elderly/Disabled Property Tax Deferral
The NC Circuit Breaker program defers the portion of property taxes that exceeds a set percentage of the owner's income ...
NC Disabled Veteran Homestead Property Tax Exclusion
North Carolina veterans with a 100% permanent and total service-connected disability rating from the VA, or who receive ...
VA Specially Adapted Housing (SAH) Grant
The VA Specially Adapted Housing grant provides up to $126,526 (FY 2026) to veterans with severe service-connected disab...
VA Special Housing Adaptation (SHA) Grant
The VA Special Housing Adaptation grant provides up to $25,350 (FY 2026) to veterans with qualifying service-connected d...
VA Home Improvements and Structural Alterations (HISA) Grant
The VA HISA grant covers medically necessary home modifications for veterans receiving VA care. Veterans with a service-...
USDA Section 504 Single Family Housing Repair Loan
USDA Section 504 loans provide up to $40,000 at 1% interest over 20 years to very low-income homeowners in eligible rura...
USDA Section 504 Single Family Housing Repair Grant
USDA Section 504 grants of up to $10,000 are available to very low-income homeowners age 62 or older who cannot repay a ...
FHA 203(k) Standard Rehabilitation Loan
The FHA 203(k) Standard loan wraps purchase (or refinance) and major rehabilitation costs into a single mortgage. Borrow...
FHA 203(k) Limited (Streamline) Rehabilitation Loan
The FHA 203(k) Limited (Streamline) loan allows homeowners to finance up to $35,000 in non-structural rehabilitation cos...
NC LIEAP, Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
North Carolina's LIEAP program (funded by federal LIHEAP) provides one-time annual heating or cooling bill assistance to...
Duke Energy Carolinas, Home Energy Improvement Rebates
Duke Energy Carolinas offers rebates to residential customers for qualifying energy efficiency upgrades including heat p...
Duke Energy, Income-Qualified Weatherization (Helping Home Fund)
Duke Energy's Income-Qualified Weatherization program (Helping Home Fund) provides free comprehensive weatherization and...
Piedmont Natural Gas (Duke Energy), Equipment Efficiency Rebates
Piedmont Natural Gas (a Duke Energy subsidiary) offers rebates to current Mecklenburg County gas customers replacing nat...
EPA/HUD Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Program (Charlotte)
The City of Charlotte received a $3.5 million EPA/HUD Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction grant to identify and control le...
FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP), NC
FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funds structural elevation, reinforcement, and property acquisitions to reduce di...
Renew NC Single-Family Housing Program (Hurricane Helene Recovery)
The Renew NC Single-Family Housing Program provides CDBG-DR-funded repair and reconstruction grants to low-to-moderate i...
NC 1st Home Advantage Down Payment, $15,000 DPA
The NC 1st Home Advantage Down Payment program offers $15,000 as a 0% interest deferred second mortgage to first-time ho...
Mecklenburg DSS, Heating/Cooling Crisis Assistance
Mecklenburg County DSS administers federal LIEAP/LIHEAP funds providing one-time annual payments toward heating or cooli...
Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy, Property Tax Relief Assistance
Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy offers free assistance to low-income homeowners navigating NC property tax relief pr...
Duke Energy Carolinas, Customer Assistance Program (CAP) Monthly Bill Credit
Duke Energy Carolinas' Customer Assistance Program (CAP) provides a monthly electric bill credit of up to $42 for income...
Mecklenburg County Assessor, All Property Tax Relief Programs Summary
The Mecklenburg County Assessor's Office administers three property tax relief programs: the Elderly/Disabled Homestead ...
NCHFA, Repair Your Home Resource Center
NCHFA's 'Repair Your Home' resource portal connects North Carolina homeowners to state and federal repair programs inclu...
HUD HOME Investment Partnerships Program, Charlotte
HUD's HOME Investment Partnerships Program provides federal formula grants to Charlotte to fund affordable housing rehab...
FEMA Increased Cost of Compliance (ICC) Coverage
ICC coverage is built into every National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policy and pays up to $30,000 to help bring a s...
HUD Lead Hazard Control & Healthy Homes
HUD funds state, county, and city governments to identify and fix lead-based paint hazards and other health hazards (mol...
EPA / WIIN Act Lead Service Line Replacement
EPA's WIIN Act grants and the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) fund lead service line replacement programs in...
American Red Cross Home Fire Campaign, Free Smoke Alarms
The American Red Cross installs free smoke alarms and creates home fire escape plans through their nationwide Home Fire ...
EPA State Indoor Radon Grants, State Radon Programs
EPA provides State and Tribal Indoor Radon Grants (SIRG) to every state to fund radon risk reduction programs. While the...
NeighborWorks Network, Home Repair & Modification Programs
NeighborWorks America supports a network of nearly 250 local nonprofit housing organizations across every state, DC, and...
National Trust for Historic Preservation, Homeowner Resources
Owners of historic homes may access funding through their State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), which distributes H...
HUD Section 184 Indian Home Loan Guarantee
The Section 184 Indian Home Loan Guarantee Program provides HUD-guaranteed mortgage financing for American Indian and Al...
Federal Solar ITC + Duke Energy Progress Solar Rebate
Charlotte homeowners can combine the 30% federal Solar ITC with Duke Energy Progress's residential solar rebate program....
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