Flooded Brevard apartments reach deadline for around 90 families to leave

November 15, 2026 By

Roughly 90 families at a Brevard County apartment complex are scrambling to find new housing after severe flooding damaged their buildings, prompting property management to issue a 48-hour notice to vacate.

Last week’s heavy flooding soaked entire buildings at the Windover Palms Apartments, leaving standing water inside units and destroying personal belongings. On Wednesday, management notified affected residents that they must leave the damaged apartments by Friday.

While property management emphasized that the notice is not an eviction, officials said the building requires at least six months of extensive repairs before it will be safe for occupancy. Residents will be permitted to return until the 20th of the month to retrieve any salvageable belongings, and the complex stated it will refund rent and security deposits in the coming days.

For Tolani Fonville, the sudden displacement has upended what was supposed to be a fresh start. Fonville moved into the complex just a month ago with her fiancé and their baby after starting a new job.

“Nothing that I worked for is cheap,” Fonville said while walking through her waterlogged apartment. “I have two jobs. I got this apartment for us. Everything I do was for my baby.”

The floodwaters ruined much of her child’s essential gear, including a crib, car seat, and toys, forcing her to throw them away. Now, without any local family to lean on, she is trying to balance full-time parenting and two jobs while hunting for an immediate place to stay.

“It feels like they’re just throwing us to the street,” Fonville said. “‘Oh, you guys have to be out,’ and that’s it. I’m still trying to be a mother full-time and find out what we are going to do at the same time.”

Finding an affordable alternative on short notice has proven difficult. According to Fonville, the nearby complexes recommended to displaced tenants cost up to three times her current rent.

“The apartments they’re recommending us to are well over $2,000, $1,700, even $1,500,” she said. “Most people don’t have that.”To assist families with nowhere else to go, the American Red Cross is opening an emergency shelter on Friday at the Joseph N. Davis Community Center, located off Bruce D. Buggs Street in Melbourne.