The City of Cooper City
Residential Rehabilitation Program
The City of Cooper City receives Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) dollars on an annual basis from Broward County. With a portion of these funds, the City has established an owner-occupied home repair program. The City’s home repair program currently provides a five-year deferred payment loan to low and moderate income households, adjusted for family size, to assist homeowners in rehabilitating existing homes through correcting housing code violations, construction, and/or installation of non-luxury general property improvements that provide basic amenities. Emergency repairs may also be covered in this program, with priority given for life threatening or health and safety issues. The program also includes assisting special needs applicants (disabled) to make their home barrier-free.
Program Requirements
- Limits on Income and Assessed Property Values.
- Residents must be able to verify income and assets
- The property must be a primary residence
- Applicants are required to a sign a recapture document (a lien for the amount of assistance given)
- If the home is sold or rented within five (5) years after work has been completed, the resident will be subject to repay the prorated portion of the amount of assistance
- Homeowners who have received any form of grant assistance from the City, cannot re-apply for (5) years (Effective July 1, 2004)