Galveston County homeowners who are still dealing with damage from Hurricane Beryl or other 2024 storms can apply for free rebuilding assistance or repair reimbursement through a Texas General Land Office program, with a local outreach event set for Saturday, Aug. 29.
The program, first reported by Click2Houston, covers two tracks: the Homeowner Assistance Program, which helps rebuild damaged homes, and the Homeowner Reimbursement Program, which pays back out-of-pocket repair costs. Both are open to homeowners who owned and occupied their home as a primary residence at the time of the storm and at the time of application, with household income up to 200% of the area median income.
That matters for Clear Lake-area residents. Friendswood, Webster, Seabrook, Nassau Bay and Clear Lake Shores all fall within Galveston County, and Hurricane Beryl knocked out power to more than 120,000 county residents when it hit in July 2024, causing more than $12 million in storm damage across Galveston County cities.
One important note: Friendswood and Webster straddle the Harris County–Galveston County line. Eligibility depends on which county your property sits in. Homeowners on the Harris County side should visit harrisrecovery.org instead.
The Aug. 29 outreach event
The GLO will host a walk-in outreach event from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, at Moore Memorial Public Library, 1701 9th Ave. North, Texas City. Staff will help residents determine eligibility and walk them through the application process.
Both Galveston County and the City of Galveston have promoted the event on their official social media pages, urging residents to attend or apply online.
How to apply
Homeowners do not need to wait for the Aug. 29 event. Applications are open at the GLO's disaster recovery portal. Residents can also call 1-844-893-8937 or email [email protected].
The program is funded through $555.7 million in federal Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery dollars allocated to Texas for the 2024 disasters, according to the GLO's action plan. The GLO is administering roughly $375 million of that across 27 eligible counties. Applications opened July 9, 2025.
"Our mission is to serve the people we are supposed to serve and do it well," Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said in a January 2026 newsletter marking the completion of the GLO's Hurricane Harvey rebuilding effort, which repaired more than 8,750 homes and reimbursed nearly 3,000 homeowners for more than $86 million in out-of-pocket costs across 49 counties.
The same agency is now running the 2024 disaster programs.
