The Miami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust’s Rehabilitation Assistance Program (RAP) – which offers low-to-moderate income homeowners a $50,000 forgivable loan for roofing, plumbing, heating, ventilation and other structural repairs – will be bolstered by an additional $2 million in surtax dollars, according to the agency.
MDEAT, at a board meeting last week, said it planned to exhaust an already allocated $1.5 million for the program by March 31, and requested another $2 million for the current budget year following a significant increase in applications.
“We’ve done it with our agency,” said Kametra Driver, executive director of Homestead’s Community Redevelopment Agency and an MDEAT board member. “So we have a grant that we can do up to $25,000, and what we’re unable to cover, we refer people to MDEAT. We have some that are in the queue now and some that have already been completed. So they in essence got $75,000 worth of work done on their house by pairing the two programs together.”
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