Grants
Where to look for help paying for the work.
These are the local programs people ask about for a disability-related renovation in Orlando and Orange County. The dollar amounts below are the ones the City of Orlando publishes. We help write the description of the house. The program decides who is approved.
City of Orlando
Up to $20,000 can be a grant.
The City of Orlando Housing Rehabilitation Program publishes three tiers. Up to $20,000 can be a grant, with no lien period. From $20,001 to $45,000, the help is a deferred loan and a 10-year lien. Above $45,000, the lien is 15 years. If you live in the house for that period and do not sell or rent it, the city says the loan can be forgiven.
The house has to be inside the Orlando city limits, a single-family home you own and live in. The city says it gives priority to households with documented special needs, and to very low incomes. One grant per household every two years. Call 407-246-2708 and ask if they are taking applications. That changes.
The city decides who is approved. After the free visit we write the shower, the door widths, and the prices for the application. The same papers can be used for a VA disability housing grant, Medicaid or other Florida disability assistance, workers’ compensation, or a private grant, if that program asks for a contractor scope.
Orange County
Accessibility is on the county list. New applications were closed.
Orange County’s housing rehabilitation program lists accessibility improvements, along with roofing, plumbing, and electrical. The county posted that new applications were temporarily closed on September 21, 2026, so the office could work through the waitlist. If the house is in Orange County but outside the city of Orlando, ask the county whether accessibility work is being funded again before you plan around it.
The county page is engageorange.ocfl.net. Eligibility there includes owning and living in the home, and being current on the mortgage and the taxes. The amount depends on the repairs they qualify.
A place to start the question
Center for Independent Living in Central Florida.
The Center for Independent Living in Central Florida helps people with disabilities find housing help and home modifications. Their program for modifications is Foundations to Freedom. They do not publish a dollar amount the way the city does, so call and ask what is open. The Winter Park office is 720 N. Denning Drive. Phone 407-623-1070. They also take appointments in Orlando, Kissimmee, and Lakeland.
They can point you at a program. We are the contractor who draws the house, pulls the permit, and builds it. Florida license CGC1531832. Reunion, in Kissimmee, is a roll-in shower a wheelchair uses now. Orlando and Windermere are curbless baths.
Bring the program’s page to the visit.
The first visit is free. If a case manager or an occupational therapist already wrote what the house needs, bring that page. We measure the doors, the shower, and the path, and we help you put those numbers into the application.
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Grant questions
- Will you fill out the grant?
- We help with the part that describes the house: door widths, the roll-in shower, a ramp if the step is the problem, a ceiling track when the resident needs one, and the prices. You send that with the application. The program decides who is approved. License CGC1531832.