Palm Beach County Housing Plan
Goal: Develop a Housing Plan that will outline how we will address the housing crisis in Palm Beach County. The recently completed Palm Beach County Housing Needs Assessment will guide these efforts and will be used to create benchmarks.
The Housing Leadership Council will fund the plan development and be guided by the Palm Beach County Housing Steering Committee which meets the second Wednesday of each month from 9:00am-10:30am. Contact info@hlcpbc.org to be included in these meetings which are being held virtually at this time. This group includes housing stakeholders and this group will thoroughly research the following topic areas by having topic experts speak at each meeting.
Meeting Topics:
Financing:
- Bank Lending
- Fee Waivers
- Foundations
- Funding Sources – e.g. Bond Fund
- Gap Financing
- Loan Pools
- Municipal Housing Trust Funds
- Social Impact Funds
- TIF Financing
Planning/Regulatory
- Adaptive Reuse (commercial, i.e., such as strip malls into housing)
- ADUs
- Approval Process
- County Organization
- County/Publicly-Owned Land
- Fee Waivers
- Land Use Changes
- NIMBY
- Permitting Issues
- Production Barriers
- Rezoning & Density Bonuses
Neighborhood Revitalization
- Addressing Gentrification
- High Renter Percentage; National SF Rental Companies
- Homeownership
- Identify Target Areas
- Infrastructure Investment – CDBG/Other Sources
- Purpose Built Community Approach
- Rehab Programs
- Role of Commercial Investment
Racial Equity
- COVID-19 Impact
- HLC Racial Equity Project
- Homeownership – Closing the Wealth
- Income vs. Housing Availability