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Pandemic supply & demand problems slow home construction and renovations
Meagan Miller | abc7 News | Fri April 30, 2021 During the pandemic, the demand for construction and renovation materials has continued to grow while the supply chain has been disrupted. First it was cleaning supplies and toilet paper flying off the shelves, and now it’s more difficult to get things like granite and lumber. “A…
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Florida has a ‘serious mismatch’ between housing costs and income
Angie DiMichele | Sarasota Herald-Tribune | April 30, 2021 Nearly 1,000 people move to Florida every day, making Florida the second fastest-growing state in the country. Yet as housing demand increases, there are not enough options to meet the demand of those who need affordable housing. No state has an adequate supply of affordable housing,…
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Income Gap Hits Home
By Wendy Rhodes | Palm Beach Post | USA TODAY NETWORK Women at a disadvantage in affording a place to live Anneliese Abreu and her 15-month-old son, Jasiel, need a place to live. And they need it by May 1. But buying a home is out of the question. Renting isn’t looking too good, either.…
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Affordable Housing Forever
By Michael Friedrich | April 15, 2021 | The New York Times Mr. Friedrich is a journalist who writes about the social problems caused by gentrification. Nonprofits that purchase land, build homes on it and sell them below market rate are giving low-income buyers a chance. If anyone knows how gentrification has displaced Black working-class…
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Lawmakers Shortchange Housing Fund to Fight Sea-Level Rise
By the Miami Herald Editorial Board | April 14, 2021 Republicans are gutting Florida’s housing fund again. Gov. DeSantis should stop them Florida lawmakers have been raiding the state’s affordable housing fund for so long, they’ve decided to drop the pretense and alter the law to fit their own twisted reasoning. That’s what’s happening in…
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Biden Seeks to Ease Housing Shortage With Looser Zoning Rules
By Andrew Ackerman and Nicole Friedman | Apr 7, 2021 WASHINGTON—A Biden administration push to increase the supply of affordable housing aims to coax states and localities into easing restrictions on new construction, a bid to help address a historic shortage of new housing. A roughly $213 billion affordable-housing initiative in the $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan unveiled last…
