House & Home
These pages provide links to information about your home, such as making repairs, getting home insurance, buying and selling a house, dealing with a landlord, and keeping your home environment clean.
- Building & Renovating
Information about redesigning your home and hiring licensed contractors. - Disaster Preparedness & Recovery
Preparing your home and property, coping with stress, and recovery assistance programs. - Home Environment
Maintaining a healthy and attractive home. - Home Insurance
Flood and renter's insurance, insurance claims, and the Florida insurance guide. - Housing & Communities
Housing density, affordability, green space and development, and self-sufficient neighborhoods. - Housing Options
Home ownership, rentals, assisted living, mortgages. - Maintenance & Repair
How to hire a licenced contractor or do your own simple home repairs and improvements. - Pests
Indoor and structural pests and methods of controling them. - Sustainable Living
Waste reduction, energy efficiency, composting, and other topics.
For information about community housing issues--such as efficient and affordable housing, housing density, and green development--see Building & Construction and Land Use & Development under Sustainable Living.
For information about home water quality, see Water Resources.
If you can't find the information you're looking for, send us your questions--and let us know which county you live in--or contact your county Extension office.
General Resources
UF/IFAS Sites
- Bed Bug Workgroup
- Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences
- Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse
- Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing
UF/IFAS Publications
- Energy Efficiency in the Home
- Florida Homeowners Handbook to Prepare for Natural Hazards (pdf)
- Housing
