By Jamie Ross
Special to the Sun Sentinel
Apr 14, 2020 3:30 PM
Housing is healthcare. We have known this for a long time, but never more acutely than now. The full appropriation of Sadowski Trust funds for housing could not have come at a better time.
All 67 counties and large cities in Florida have local housing programs, known as the State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP), which are funded from the dedicated revenue source for affordable housing created in the 1992 Sadowski Act. The SHIP program is the very best housing trust fund program in the nation. It is highly accountable, with substantial state oversight, and is amply flexible to meet local housing needs. And right now, the SHIP program is working in response to the COVID-19 crisis.