As of July 1, 2023 - Program has Expanded to All First Time Homebuyers The Florida Hometown Heroes Housing Program aims to make homeownership affordable for eligible members of the community workforce. The program has expanded who can apply. It now focuses on first-time homebuyers. The grant am...
The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is asecondaryfederal initiative that helps Florida residents improve their homes’ energy efficiency. LIHEAP allocates most of its grant money to lower utility bills (gas and electric), while a small percentage goes towards repairs that lower e...
House Joint Resolution 1 is a proposed constitutional amendment that would help hometown heroes who already enjoy homeownership. If approved by voters in November 2022, the amendment would grant an additional homestead exemption from all ad valorem taxes, other than school district levies, on the ass...
House Bill 881 extended the My Safe Florida Home Program to more properties, waiving the wind-born region requirement. Also, the insured value of the eligible homes increased to $700,000, and the low-income grant amount increased to $10,000. Most changes from these laws were in effect for...
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February 2, 2022 On Tuesday,Gov. Ron DeSantisvisited Pinellas and Miami-Dade Counties to announce the award of grants totaling more than $404 million for 113 environmental resilience projects across the state through the Resilient Florida Grant Program, which will help prepare coastal and inla...
Gov. DeSantis: Yeah, yeah. So, we've done '21, '22, '23. We've done different measures. The big enchilada was more recently, we do have the grant program, but you are seeing more companies now want to get into our market. And that's the thing....
In May, DeSantis signed a bipartisan property insurance reform bill into law that poured $2 billion into a reinsurance relief program and $150 million into a grant program for hurricane retrofitting. Among other things, it prohibits insurance companies from denying coverage ...
We offer technical information and grant programs to landowners to help them improve their forestland. Through wildfire prevention and suppression, we work to protect homeowners from the threat of damage in a natural, fire-dependent environment. ...
We offer technical information and grant programs to landowners to help them improve their forestland. Through wildfire prevention and suppression, we work to protect homeowners from the threat of damage in a natural, fire-dependent environment. ...