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Home Improvement Lending
You work hard. You want the very best for your family—a safe and secure home. But if you live in a colonia* along the South Texas border, and your income is very low, borrowing money is not easy. The amount you can spend per month for home improvements is limited. Finishing your home can take years, building literally block by block. You need a helping hand.
Through their Nuestra Casa Home Improvement Loan program, Community Resource Group extends that hand. These loans are making it possible for colonia families to:
• complete basic construction, such as installation of
doors/windows, electrical wiring, etc.,
• repair, or replace, walls, roofs, and floors,
• add, or renovate, bathrooms, kitchens, and other living
spaces, and
• obtain safe water, electricity, and sanitation.
 To date, we’ve made more than 1,000 loans! Designed to speed up the pay-as-you-build process, families living in this rural area are now able to complete their homes much faster—an essential step toward building a better future.
For more information about the 1000th loan, please see "Hitting a milestone, helping a family...." for the story of the Garcia family's 6 Nuestra Casa loans.
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Community Resource Group has a long history of accomplishments in the South Texas border colonias. “The Texas Colonia Story …” tells this story.
In May of 2007, the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University conducted an independent evaluation of the Nuestra Casa Home Improvement Loan program. Community Resource Group requested this evaluation. The "Executive Summary" from this report provides even more insight. To read the full report, please email your request to info@crg.org.
* “Colonia” is a commonly used name for a settlement, often lacking basic infrastructure, such as water; wastewater; and electric service, located just outside city boundaries along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Community Resource Group is headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas and currently serves the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas.
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