{"id":34468,"date":"2025-11-05T16:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/34468\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:06:06","slug":"hurricane-ian-recovery-funds-available-for-fort-myers-residents-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/34468\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Ian recovery funds available for Fort Myers residents | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The City of Fort Myers is encouraging residents to apply for the remaining $1,726,794 in funding from Florida&#8217;s Hurricane Housing Recovery Program to repair homes damaged by Hurricane Ian.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Since 2022, the city has already allocated $1,369,546 to help 12 families with home rehabilitation and reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">To qualify for the assistance, applicants must be homeowners living in Fort Myers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The property must be owner-occupied and eligible for a homestead exemption.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Additionally, household income must not exceed 120% of the area median income, as determined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Spanish-speaking staff are available to assist with the application process. If applicants do not qualify, other city programs may be available for income-qualifying residents.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For more information and to apply, <a href=\"https:\/\/fortmyers.gov\/1299\/Housing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Fort Myers is encouraging residents to apply for the remaining $1,726,794 in funding from Florida&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325],"class_list":["post-34468","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\/34468","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=34468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}