My Safe Florida Home Program Reopens
- Christine M Pratt
- Jul 31
- 1 min read
The home-hardening grant program, a Florida Realtors’ 2025 legislative priority, reopens Aug. 4 with $10K matching grants to help strengthen homes against storms.
Homeowners who have not yet begun the process are urged to begin as soon as possible by going to mysafeflhome.com, creating an account and requesting a free inspection to identify improvements that might be eligible for grants and discounts on their property insurance bills.
Eligible improvements include:
Secondary water resistance barriers for roofs. This usually results in approvals for full roof replacements, since inspectors cannot tell whether a roof has a secondary water resistance barrier by sight alone.
Roof-to-wall connection strengthening and roof-to-deck strengthening. This typically requires increasing the number and type of reinforcements to comply with current building codes.
Opening protections. Includes overhead garage doors with steel reinforcements, impact windows or aluminum shutters, and new entry doors to the front or sides of the house.
Windstorm mitigation inspections must be completed before participants will be allowed to request grant funding.
*Homeowners who do not fit into a “low-income” or “moderate-income” classification may not be able to apply, but may be able to apply for free inspections if funds remain available after the prioritization period ends Sept. 29.
The Christine Lohmeyer Group, C21 Commercial & Residential
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