The donations from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy and The Meadows Foundation have enabled HEART to reopen applications, which will lead to support for more organizations helping rebuild the lives and communities damaged by Harvey. The Rebuild Texas Fund will match these two new donations and the total funding available has now reached $1.5 million.

“The program has been reinstated, as in we allocated all of our initial funding but were able to give new life to the program because we raised additional funding. That's why we are accepting grant proposals again,” Michael Wilt of the Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation tells GlobeSt.com. “Everyone assisted through the program was impacted by Harvey–either displaced or living in substandard housing.”

GlobeSt.com learns that the program is focused specifically on the rural underserved Gulf Coast areas and more funds are needed. The demand has worsen a year later due to the end of emergency assistance resources such as the hotel voucher program and emergency trailers.

TSAHC will continue to concentrate its grants on organizations that help people repair homes from the foundations to the roofs. Enterprise's focus will remain on supporting programming such as supportive housing services, financial counseling and long-term planning, including assistance with resilient and green building practices.

TSAHC is a statewide 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization created at the direction of the Texas legislature to serve as a self-sustaining statewide affordable housing provider. TSAHC provides innovative housing programs that help developers build affordable housing, help low and moderate-income households purchase a home, and help people facing financial hardship to remain in their homes.

Enterprise Community Partners is a nonprofit that makes well-designed homes affordable. In the last 35 years, Enterprise has created nearly 470,000 homes and invested $28.9 billion.

The Rebuild Texas Fund works alongside organizations within the impacted communities making an impact in the following six focus areas: community and economic development, health, housing, education and childcare, transportation and workforce, and capital for rebuilding small businesses. The fund will continue to finance projects and eligible nonprofit, government, corporate and philanthropic organizations that have been affected by Hurricane Harvey through the end of 2019.