Housing
NEW COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LOBBY HOURS
The City of Fort Myers Community Development Department lobby doors on 1825 Hendry Street will close at 4 p.m. Phone lines remain open from 7:30 am to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The lobby is open for business each morning at 7:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. Please call Community Development staff at 239-321-7925 if there are any questions or concerns. Thank you.
Housing Services
The Housing Services Program helps homebuyers and homeowners purchase and live in safe, decent, and sanitary housing within the City of Fort Myers.
These programs help income-qualifying homebuyers that are within City limits (Am I In the City map):
- Purchase homes in the City of Fort Myers with Purchase Assistance Program (INACTIVE).
- Purchase homes in specific areas of Fort Myers with the Neighborhood Stabilization Program.
- Make repairs and major improvements to your home with the Repair and Rehabilitation Program.
Consolidated Plan 2020-2024
Housing Mission
Housing is to be a catalyst for increasing access to and availability of quality housing, to improve and maintain the City’s Housing stock, to increase real estate values and ensure safe communities by optimizing resources and the collaboration of public private partnership and to ensure the greatest public benefit is achieved through the maintenance of City-owned real estate and equitable distribution of support.
The City of Fort Myers considers the provision of housing as a basic human need, and therefore has assumed the responsibility to work toward increasing the availability of affordable workforce housing in the community. The Housing Division administers the housing programs for the City of Fort Myers. The City is committed to annually funding and managing these programs to provide access to attainable housing to the residents.