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Repairs Get Second Chance for Harvey Grants

Relief demands are worse a year later, due to the end of emergency assistance resources such as the hotel voucher program and emergency trailers, and while grants have resumed, more funds are needed.

Harvey repairs The first round of grants will finance 47 hurricane and flood-damaged homes (credit: USA Home Remodeling).

HOUSTON—Nonprofits providing critical home repairs and other housing assistance to low-income Texas families affected by Hurricane Harvey now have a second chance to apply for grants to accelerate those projects. This opportunity, made possible by generous donations from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy and The Meadows Foundation, comes shortly after the awarding of 14 initial grants totaling $500,000 for recovery projects.

The Housing and Economic Assistance to Rebuild Texas/HEART program, a grant and technical assistance partnership between the Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation/TSAHC and Enterprise Community Partners, began accepting grant applications from nonprofits in May. Due to an overwhelming number of preliminary proposals, HEART temporarily suspended submissions in June.

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Lisa Brown

Lisa Brown

Lisa Brown is an editor for the south and west regions of GlobeSt.com. She has 25-plus years of real estate experience, with a regional PR role at Grubb & Ellis and a national communications position at MMI. Brown also spent 10 years as executive director at NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area chapter, where she led the organization to achieving its first national award honors and recognition on Capitol Hill. She has written extensively on commercial real estate topics and edited numerous pieces on the subject.

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