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DeSantis orders another 30-day freeze on foreclosures and evictions
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an order late Tuesday extending a moratorium on evictions until August 1. By Christine Stapleton | Palm Beach PostJune 30, 2020 Less than four hours before a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures was set to expire early Wednesday morning, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis extended the freeze for another 30 days. The…
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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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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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Gardens: Avenir can pay $10 million instead of including workforce housing
By Sarah Peters Posted at 6:09 PMUpdated at 6:30 PM Palm Beach Gardens will spend $5 million on a workforce housing program and $5 million on renovating the Burns Road Recreation Center. PALM BEACH GARDENS — The Avenir builders will pay the city $10 million for a pass on the commitment to include 250 homes priced for working-class families. It’s…
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Affordable homes to be built in Boynton Beach’s Heart of Boynton
Source: Sun Sentinel There is now an empty, sandy lot where Charles and Mary Rahming’s dreams are beginning to blossom. The couple already is zeroing in on a corner lot they hope to own later this year in the proposed 21-home Ocean Breeze West development being built by Habitat for Humanity of South Palm Beach…
