{"id":13730,"date":"2025-10-21T10:42:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/13730\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:42:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:42:30","slug":"pinellas-people-first-hurricane-recovery-program-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/13730\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinellas People First Hurricane Recovery Program opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/recover.pinellas.gov\/people-first-hurricane-recovery-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Pinellas People First Hurricane Recovery Program<\/a> has opened for Pinellas County residents still working to recover from Hurricanes Helene and Milton in 2024 and Idalia in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>The Pinellas People First Hurricane Recovery is open for applications Monday, Oct. 20\u00a0<br \/>\nThe fund is part of the largest community block grant awarded in Florida, totaling more than $800 million<br \/>\nProgram is income-based, and will accept households that make up to 120% the area&#8217;s median household income<br \/>\nSt. Petersburg residents are not eligible because the city has its own disaster recovery program<\/p>\n<p>The recovery funds are part of the largest community block grant awarded in Florida, totaling more than $800 million.<\/p>\n<p>All Pinellas County residents can qualify, excluding St. Petersburg residents, who can apply for a similar program run by the city.<\/p>\n<p>Pinellas County Senior Communications Project Coordinator Josh Boatwright says there are still thousands of residents who have not been made whole from recent hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hope is to really see people who have been struggling financially through this time, to get back in their home, to find a stable home where they can stay rooted in the community and really rebuild the resilience of our community going forward,\u201d said Boatwright.<\/p>\n<p>The Pinellas People First Hurricane Recovery Program is income-based, available for low to mid income households, and is based on the area\u2019s median income.<\/p>\n<p>There are five categories a household could qualify, including funds for repairs that still need to be made, reimbursement for money already paid for documented repairs, landlord assistance, funds for a new home outside of a flood zone, and reimbursement for disaster expenses like late mortgage and utility payments.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on how to apply for the Pinellas County program, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/recover.pinellas.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pinellas Recovers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a St. Petersburg resident, the city&#8217;s program can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpete.org\/government\/initiatives___programs\/sunrise_st_pete.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sunrise St. Pete<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Pinellas People First Hurricane Recovery Program has opened for Pinellas County residents still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[274,1847,2635,115,596,12166,135,137,136,278,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-13730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-app-top-stories","9":"tag-hurricane-season","10":"tag-jason-lanning","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pinellas-county","13":"tag-storm-season","14":"tag-tampa","15":"tag-tampa-headlines","16":"tag-tampa-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}