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Palm Beach County home sales, prices stay strong — especially in entry-level range
Palm Beach County home prices remained near post-crash highs in July, a reality that poses challenges for would-be buyers like Deanne Lenowitz. Lenowitz and her family are shopping for a home priced at less than $300,000, a search that has proven frustrating. Lenowitz spent the weekend touring eight homes and even made an offer on…
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Home Is Where Health Is: A Stable, Affordable Home Is a Prescription for Good Health
by Diane YentelAugust 14, 2019 As Children’s HealthWatch regularly demonstrates to policymakers, opinion leaders, and the public: a stable, affordable home is a prescription for good health. Unfortunately, that prescription is out of reach for tens of millions of people. CLICK HERE FOR MORE
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Changes could be coming to incentivize more affordable homes in Palm Beach County
On Thursday, Palm Beach County commissioners will vote on more changes to a mandatory workforce housing program that aim to promote the construction of for-sale units. Workforce housing is set aside for qualifying residents who make between $45,240 and $105,560 per year, or between 60 percent and 140 percent of the area median income. Click…
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Home prices reach post-crash high, reverse months of tepid growth
By Jeff Ostrowski Posted Jun 21, 2019 at 9:43 AM Updated Jun 21, 2019 at 4:26 PM The median price of houses sold by Realtors jumped to $364,900. And the number of houses sold rose to 1,871, up 8.7 percent from May 2018, Realtors said Friday Click Here to Read More…
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A decade in the making, residents starting to buy from affordable housing stock
By Hannah Morse Posted May 31, 2019 at 2:07 PM Updated May 31, 2019 at 2:07 PM WEST PALM BEACH — A county program began in 2006 with the goal of providing workforce housing units in new residential developments, but only recently have qualified residents been able to purchase these units. Click Here to Read More…
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Florida House passes bill that could stop cities from requiring affordable housing
In late 2018, Miami commissioners for the first time passed a ordinance that requires developers in a small 30-block area north of downtown to set aside a percentage of units for residents with low incomes, a measure that was seen by advocates as a small but crucial step toward addressing Miami’s housing affordability crisis. Read…
