Governor Ron DeSantis announced last week nearly $150 million in grants through the Department of Economic Opportunity’s (DEO) Rebuild Florida program for local governments to develop large-scale infrastructure projects and make communities more resilient to future disasters.
The funds are allocated to the state through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant – Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) program formed in response to the 2016 to 2017 presidentially declared disasters.