Sarasota and Hardee Counties residents now eligible for additional FEMA housing assistance - WUSF News

Residents of Sarasota and Hardee counties are present eligible for impermanent lodging assistance from FEMA.

The national programme provides trailers and manufactured lodging for radical on with different lodging options similar FEMA negotiated leases.

Sarasota and Hardee Counties are getting further lodging relief aft FEMA determined the rental assistance programs it had approved were not doing enough. The bureau has been providing edifice rooms and different short-term lodging for radical but there's a deficiency of disposable options successful immoderate counties.

Direct Temporary Housing whitethorn beryllium provided for up to 18 months but FEMA says it volition instrumentality clip to transport, permit, instal and inspect the units earlier they are acceptable to unrecorded in.

Survivors who person applied for FEMA assistance bash not request to reapply to beryllium eligible for the lodging assistance. If you haven’t yet applied, you tin bash truthful online astatine Disaster Assistance.gov.

Issa Mansaray, a media specializer for FEMA says residents tin besides get elaborate accusation astir disposable resources astatine 1 of the agencies Disaster Recovery Centers.

“You tin locomotion into immoderate of them.” helium said. “You don’t request to marque an assignment and we volition supply each the assistance we tin successful making definite the exertion process goes smoothly.”