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CRA approves up to $200,000 for code‑related home rehabilitations to remove liens, help restore tax‑producing properties

3858156 · March 11, 2025
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Summary

The agency approved using CRA funds—up to $200,000—to address code violations on five privately owned homes inside the CRA area through a program managed with Keystone. Staff said the goal is to bring properties into compliance, reduce barriers of insurmountable liens and return properties to productive, taxable status.

The City of Lake Wales Community Redevelopment Agency approved a program to use up to $200,000 in CRA funds to remediate code violations on five privately owned properties within the CRA area.

City staff presented the program as a targeted, one‑off effort to assist homeowners who lack the financial resources to correct structural code violations and who face large municipal liens that have made properties effectively unsellable. Staff said the list includes properties on Wetmore, Brentwood Drive, Tillman Avenue, Weaver Avenue and…

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