LeeCares Individual Housing Recovery
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development allocated Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery funding to Lee County, Florida to address the disaster recovery needs of residents impacted by Hurricane Ian in 2022.
Funding is available to eligible residents through one of three programs:
Housing Rehabilitation, Reconstructions and Elevation (HRRE): helps property owners repair, reconstruct, and/or elevate property that suffered hurricane damage.
Housing Purchase Assistance (HPA): supports low- to moderate-income homebuyers with soft second mortgages covering various costs for buying homes outside the Special Flood Hazard Area.
Voluntary Residential Aquisition (VRA): provides homeowners with hurricane-damaged homes with repetitive loss funding to relocate to safer areas outside of the floodplain.
Home Recovery Alabama Program (HRAP)
Helping Alabama HomeownersThe Home Recovery Alabama Program (HRAP) provided housing assistance to eligible single-family owner/occupant applicants (Owner-Applicants) and owners of single-family rental properties (Landlord-Applicants) affected by Hurricane Sally in September 2020 and/or Hurricane Zeta in October 2020 (“qualifying storms”). HRAP assisted property owners by providing funding to repair, reconstruct, or replace single-family homes that suffered damage from one or both of the qualifying storms. This program was designed to ensure that the housing needs of extremely-low, very-low, low- and moderate-income households, protected classes, and vulnerable populations are addressed to the greatest extent feasible.
HRAP is administered by the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA) and serves low- to moderate-income (LMI) households impacted by the qualifying storms in nine (9) HUD- and State-designated Most Impacted and Distressed (MID) counties, which include: Mobile, Clarke, Baldwin, Escambia, Dallas, Marengo, Wilcox, Perry, and Washington counties.