This is a house in Slippery Rock that the Butler County Redevelopment Authority acquired in 2017 through the Butler County Acquisition and Rehab Program before it was rehabilitated.

After receiving a significant state funding increase for 2020, a Butler County housing program thinks it can double its number of rehabilitated homes.

The Butler County Acquisition Rehab (BAR) program is run by the Redevelopment Authority of Butler County and is used to acquire and rehabilitate vacant or blighted homes and then rent them to hard-to-house people.

Being hard to house does not necessarily mean someone is homeless, rather it means it is simply hard for them to find suitable housing, because they have a large family, for example.The hard-to-house population usually falls between other housing programs such as Section 8 or programs geared toward homelessness.<i>This is an excerpt from a larger article that appears in Sunday's Butler Eagle. Subscribe online or in print to read the full article.</i>

This is a house in Slippery Rock that the Butler County Redevelopment Authority acquired in 2017 through the Butler County Acquisition and Rehab Program. Rehabilitation of the house was completed in 2019.