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Housing help: Resources in Rappahannock, Fauquier and Culpeper counties

by | May 20, 2024

Culpeper

Culpeper Housing and Shelter Services: Homeless shelter, affordable housing and rapid re-homing services.

Culpeper County Department of Human Services: Temporary assistance for needy families, energy assistance.

  • 540-727-0372

Culpeper Winter Heat Shelter: Overnight warming shelter operational during winter months, free meals.

Habitat for Humanity of Culpeper County: Affordable homeownership, critical home repair

Fauquier

Community Touch: Transitional housing and placement assistance.

  • Felicia Champion, program director, 540-439-9300

Hero’s Bridge: Aging veterans’ services.

  • 540-341-5378

Family Shelter Services: Homeless shelter, transitional housing program.

Rappahannock

Rappahannock Benevolent Fund: Financial assistance.

Rapp at Home: Assistance for seniors in their homes.

Rapp Home Shares: Affordable room rental, host and housemate matching.

RappRentersNet: Social rental listings group, available rental units.

Regional Resources

People Incorporated: Community action agency, community improvement and assistance.

Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission: Housing and homelessness coordination.

  •  540-829-7450

Foothills Housing Network: Homelessness prevention, homelessness services.

Virginia Poverty Law Center Eviction Helpline: Eviction and lease information, tenants’ rights.

Access VA: Virginia affordable and accessible housing for aging citizens.

  • Hotline, 877-428-8844

Skyline Cap: Emergency home repairs, affordable housing units, Fauquier and Rappahannock counties.

  • 540-948-3916

Neighborhood Servants: Senior neighbor assistance, home repairs,  Culpeper and Fauquier counties.

  • 540-935-3568

Fauquier Habitat for Humanity: Home repair, housing assistance, Fauquier and Rappahannock counties.

  • 540-341-4952

  • ReStore, 855-914-3447

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By Ireland Hayes

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Ireland joined Foothills Forum as a full-time reporter in 2023 after graduating from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in journalism and minor in music. As a student, she gained valuable experience in reporter and editor positions at The Red & Black, an award-winning student newspaper, and contributed to Grady Newsource and the Athens Banner-Herald. She spent three years as an editorial assistant at Georgia Magazine, UGA’s quarterly alumni publication, and interned with The Bitter Southerner. Growing up in a small town in Southeast Georgia, Ireland developed a deep appreciation for rural communities and the unique stories they have to tell. She completed undergraduate research on news deserts, ghost papers and the ways rural communities in Georgia are being forced to adapt to a lack of local news. This research further sparked her interest in a career contributing to the preservation of local and rural news.