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Free Wind Mitigation Grants End

In August 2006, then-Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher kicked off the My Safe Florida Home (MSFH) program, a $250 million mitigation program to help Floridians strengthen their homes against

By Sharon K. Moorhead | Updated on August 31, 2008

Finally, a government program that is an unqualified success. Too bad that very success has led to its early termination.

In August 2006, then-Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher kicked off the My Safe Florida Home (MSFH) program, a $250 million mitigation program to help Floridians strengthen their homes against hurricanes and to reduce property losses in Florida. Under its legislative mandate, the program was to provide inspections for at least 400,000 site-built, single-family, residential properties and to give mitigation grants to at least 35,000 applicants before June 30, 2009.

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