LEE COUNTY

Starting Friday, you tin use to get wealth and wage your security deductibles successful Lee County.

It comes astir 2 weeks aft Governor Ron DeSantis announced that the six hardest-hit counties would get their portion of $5 cardinal to help.

Lee County’s chunk of wealth adds up to much than $2 cardinal to assistance homes get fixed.

You tin get up to $10,000, but determination are restrictions.

  • The location indispensable beryllium owned and occupied for a minimum of 1 twelvemonth by the applicant arsenic documented by homestead exemption presumption (mobile homes not eligible).
  • The maximum magnitude of assistance volition beryllium $10,000 and is babelike upon impervious of a homeowner’s security argumentation showing the deductible amount.
  • The location indispensable beryllium located successful Lee County. If you are a nonmigratory of Cape Coral you indispensable interaction them astatine [email protected] to apply.
  • The applicant indispensable beryllium existent connected Lee County taxes.
  • Priority volition beryllium fixed to applicants who are precise low-income (50% of AMI) and/or peculiar needs households.
  • The household yearly income cannot transcend 80% of the Area Median Income (AMI).

Snowbirds, you’re retired of luck. You person to beryllium a imperishable full-time nonmigratory to apply. Priority volition beryllium fixed to those considered precise low-income oregon peculiar needs.

The region says precise debased income is 50% of the area’s median income (AMI). That’s astir $28,000 for a one-person household, according to the Florida Housing Finance Corporation.

That magnitude changes depending connected the fig of radical successful the home, and household income cannot transcend 80% of AMI.

The region said you’ll besides request to person acceptable identification, security and income documentation.

If you unrecorded successful Cape Coral, you’ll person a abstracted exertion done the city’s lodging department.

The exertion volition beryllium disposable connected the Lee County website opening connected Friday. You tin travel backmost present for that nexus erstwhile it is available.

To beryllium enactment connected a database to beryllium notified erstwhile an exertion for assistance is available, you tin email [email protected] oregon telephone 239-533-8585.

WINK News is moving connected getting much accusation connected however to use for this assistance successful Collier County.

DeSoto County said you could locomotion successful and use successful person.

Charlotte County stopped accepting applications for assistance connected Oct. 28.