MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — The program is called the Federal Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, and it’s a partnership between FEMA and the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.
The homeowner can apply for funds with Mecklenburg County being named the sub-applicant.
While completing the application, homeowners can apply to have their home elevated, or the ground around the house stabilized. If those two options are more expensive than the cost of the home. The dwelling could be purchased at 100% of Pre-Disaster Fair Market Value, determined by an independent real estate appraiser.
Mecklenburg County officials say they have been receiving a lot of calls and emails from those in the hardest hit areas, like Moutain Island Lake.
The grant is open to everyone with those hardest hit getting priority.
“By filling out an application, there is no commitment,” said Jonathan Beller, construction project manager with Mecklenburg County. “It doesn’t mean if you get approved, you have to sell or that you have to go forward with your elevation project, but if you don’t apply then you won’t be eligible.”
FEMA officials will be in the Luesa building on Suttle Avenue on January 7th – 9th from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
