The Lee Board of County Commissioners awarded about $4.4 million in State Housing Initiatives Partnership grant agreements to local partners for affordable housing on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This funding aims to assist 45 very low and 29 low-income households, including 41 households with individuals with special needs.<\/p>\n
The SHIP program, funded by the state and guided by the Local Housing Assistance Plan adopted in March, prioritizes very low, low, and special-needs households, allocating 65% of its funds to homeownership activities.<\/p>\n
Grants were allocated to several organizations. Habitat for Humanity of Lee and Hendry Counties, Inc. received $1,130,000 for down payment assistance to support 16 households. Rebuilding Together Greater Florida was awarded $1,043,000 for housing rehabilitation and $130,000 for new construction.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Lee County Housing Development Corporation received $1 million for down payment assistance. SalusCare Inc. obtained $434,302 and $70,000 for rental housing rehabilitation at two locations on Evans Avenue. St. Mark Coptic Church was awarded $595,000 for rental construction to support individuals with developmental disabilities.<\/p>\n
Since 1999, Lee County has benefited from SHIP funds, sourced from a state surcharge on documentary stamps and distributed based on population through the Florida Housing Finance Corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lee Board of County Commissioners awarded about $4.4 million in State Housing Initiatives Partnership grant agreements to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325],"class_list":["post-33115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33115","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=33115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}