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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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Cerabino: Jupiter land swap isn’t only housing we can’t afford
By Frank Cerabino – Palm Beach Post Staff Writer The brazen move to disregard a “forever” environmental easement on 15 acres in Jupiter to build eight more luxury homes on golfer Jack Nicklaus’ the Bear’s Club invitation-only private community isn’t surprising. Florida has long been a haven for environmentally destructive unaffordable housing. The deal would…
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Affordability still an issue needing a fix
OUR VIEWS WORKFORCE HOUSING CRISIS Palm Beach Post Editorial Board All is not sunshine and beaches with the Florida economy. At least not when it comes to housing affordability. GateHouse Media Capital Bureau correspondent John Kennedy reported last week the percentage of Florida households owning homes has now plunged to “its worst level ever seen,…
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Who Is the “Public” at Public Meetings?
August 27, 2018by Strong Towns Here at Strong Towns, we’ve spotlighted the shortcomings of conventional public participation in the development process before. When the public is asked to weigh in on development and infrastructure decisions, it is often in ways that are, at best, outside their expertise, and at worst, actively corrosive of civic trust because of…
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NIMBY vs. YIMBY: Housing battle brews in booming Seattle
By Phuong Le -Associated Press SEATTLE – Seattle’s booming tech industry has brought a massive influx of new residents with big wallets to the city. But an ensuing housing crunch has led to skyrocketing rents and home prices that have strained middle- and working-class families and deepened the city’s crisis of homelessness. To keep construction…
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‘My Generation Is Never Going to Have That’
In Seattle’s red-hot housing market, a group of millennial techies is using data skills to alter the look, and affordability, of their adopted city. By PAUL ROBERTS April 26, 2018 On a brisk Saturday morning in March, a 27-year-old programmer named Zach Lubarsky, bundled in a fatigue jacket and knit cap, took a ReachNow rental…
