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Palm Beach County Community Services’ online portal for Emergency Rental/Utility Assistance Program will close on August 11, 2021.
The prioritization assistance to households with incomes less than 50% of area median income and to households with one or more members who have been unemployed for at least 90 days was established in the PPM and automated in the online application system, OSCARSS. The system assigns a priority level to each applicant based on…
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Florida Realtors wages battle with DeSantis over state cuts to affordable housing fund
Wendy Rhodes | Palm Beach Post Florida Realtors, the state’s largest trade organization and the third-largest Realtor organization in the country, is taking on Gov. Ron DeSantis and state GOP lawmakers over recent legislation that permanently pillages a critical affordable housing trust fund. The move comes as the prices of homes — and rents — skyrocket across…
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The CDC Extends Its Eviction Moratorium For 30 Days
For inquiries, please reach out to Today in Housing Managing Editor Ahmad Abu-Khalaf, senior research analyst at Enterprise. JUNE 24, 2021 Today, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky extended the agency’s temporary eviction moratorium for qualifying renters, which was set to expire on June 30, 2021, through July 31, 2021. A press release from the CDC…
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Rents are rising as homebuyers get priced out of the market
By Amber Randall |South Florida Sun Sentinel|Jun 13, 2021 Unless you can drop a pile of cash on the table, you may get squeezed into renting in South Florida’s crazy homebuying market. Home shoppers who need a mortgage are finding it harder and harder to land a house when competing against buyers — many from…
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PBC housing affordability crisis is getting worse. Is a solution on the way?
By Wendy Rhodes | Palm Beach Post | June 12, 2021 For nearly two decades, local government leaders, developers and advocates have brainstormed and promulgated different measures to address a chronic sore spot: Ever-increasing housing costs have made the American Dream of homeownership unattainable for broad swaths of people. “The dirty little secret is that the…
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The FHA Foreclosure Moratorium Ends of June 30, 2021
Covid-19 has impacted the world and nation in ways that we could not have imagined. We understand the hardships faced as you are struggling to pay your mortgage. The FHA foreclosure moratorium that began in March last year comes to an end on June 30, 2021. While the economy enters recovery phase, many families are…