Rehabilitation

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The labor, materials, tools and other costs of improving buildings, other than minor or routine repairs. Includes when the use of a building is changed to an emergency shelter and the cost of this change and any rehabiliation costs does not exceed 75 percent of the value of the building before the change in use.

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