Des Moines, Iowa — Governor Kim Reynolds has announced that conditional awards are starting to be approved for disaster-impacted Iowa homeowners through the state-funded Disaster Recovery Housing Assistance Program.
The awards will allow homeowners to begin rebuilding or be reimbursed for eligible expenses that have been incurred. The program addresses unmet housing recovery needs outside the scope of insurance coverage or FEMA Individual Assistance. Eligible homeowners can receive up to 50 thousand dollars for repairing or rehabilitating their disaster-impacted home. Applications are being reviewed and if deemed preliminarily eligible, are referred to a local administrative partner who will be the homeowner’s point of contact for inspections, feasibility for repair determination, scope of work, and payment of eligible expenses. Applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis and will remain available until funds have been exhausted. Applications will be reviewed and approved on a first-submitted, first-ready-to-proceed basis.
Eligible homes must be located in a county approved for FEMA Individual Assistance following the presidentially declared natural disasters this spring and summer. Homes in 28 counties are eligible, including Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O’Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux, and several others.
More information is available at iowafinance.com and DisasterRecovery.Iowa.gov.
(Courtesy fellow Community First Broadcasting station KAYL in Storm Lake)
