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High housing costs, low pay force Florida teachers to stretch limits
High housing costs, low pay force Florida teachers to stretch limits By Ryan McKinnonStaff Writer-www.heraldtribune.comPosted Mar 4, 2020 at 10:25 AM In nearly every corner of Florida, teachers don’t make enough to pay for housing The students in Ms. Stringer’s chemistry class at North Port High School would crack up when Alex Foley, 17, slipped…
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Florida lawmakers must stop directing affordable housing funds elsewhere, influencers say
By Adam Wollner awollner@mcclatchydc.com October 08, 2018 05:00 AM Updated October 08, 2018 05:13 PM Year after year, Florida lawmakers have raided hundreds of millions from trust funds designed to develop more affordable housing. That practice needs to end, according to a group of the state’s leading political and policy voices. In a new survey…
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Housing prices are surging: Is it too late to buy a home?
Source: Palm Beach Post Another home buying excursion last month for Riviera Beach resident Michael Lewis led him to a tidy duplex in the Turtle Cay community west of I-95. Nondescript, and probably overpriced, the gated neighborhood is not his ideal location. Read more…