Four ‘Self - Help’ homes being built in Palouse

Community Action Center is constructing four houses for low-income families along Palouse Cove Road outside of Palouse. Foundations and frames of the stick-built homes are partially completed.

“It allows a moderately paid person to get into home-ownership,” said Dale Miller, housing program manager for the Community Action Center.

Funding for CAC’s Self-Help Housing Project comes from the federal government’s Housing and Urban Development fund, Community Frameworks, a non-profit in the Pacific Northwest. Also the payments on other houses which CAC has built are being plowed back into the new p...