{"id":351737,"date":"2026-07-24T23:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351737\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T23:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:53:28","slug":"fort-lauderdale-to-help-residents-apply-for-flood-damage-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351737\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale to help residents apply for flood damage relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those in Fort Lauderdale who experienced damage from the historic April 2023 flood may be entitled to compensation from the <a href=\"https:\/\/app.smartsheet.com\/b\/publish?EQBCT=b14847f236174418a634147c75f5b18a\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Community Redevelopment Block Grant Disaster Recovery program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The federal grant can help pay for things like home rehabilitation, home reconstruction, home elevation, and reimbursement for eligible repair costs.<\/p>\n<p>To help residents, the city is hosting in-person support for those <a href=\"https:\/\/app.smartsheet.com\/b\/publish?EQBCT=b14847f236174418a634147c75f5b18a\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">filing applications<\/a> to the program. City staff will be on hand to answer questions and assist in completing applications.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held at the South Side Cultural Arts Center (701 S. Andrews Ave Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316) on August 1 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlrn.org\/government-politics\/2023-10-26\/fort-lauderdale-flood-report-infrastructure-projects\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reports on Fort Lauderdale flood show heroism, weaknesses as city ramps up infrastructure projects<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a News In Brief report. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlrn.org\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WLRN News<\/a> for in-depth reporting from South Florida and Florida news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those in Fort Lauderdale who experienced damage from the historic April 2023 flood may be entitled to compensation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-351737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351737","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=351737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}