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How to solve Florida’s large-scale affordable housing crisis
By Mike Vogel | Florida Trend | 9/25/2020 … Affordable housing means different things — market rate vs. subsidized, for example — to different people. At a housing forum in February, Suzanne Cabrera, CEO of the Housing Leadership Council of Palm Beach County, remarked that a manufacturer paying starting engineers $85,000 a year had trouble…
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Budget conference: Lawmakers won’t sweep affordable housing fund
By A.G. Gancarski on March 8, 2020 Legislative budget chairs said affordable housing funds will not be swept as has been the case in recent years. And then the House and Senate agreed on the biggest budget number for the fund in years. The Governor and Senate each wanted $387 million for the Sadowski Trust…
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South Florida Experts Discuss Region’s Affordable Housing Problem | WLRN
By Maria Esquinca • Feb 26, 2020 South Florida experts on Tuesday discussed the region’s affordable housing problem during a conference held by the Urban Land Institute. The panel was one of many during the three-day Housing Opportunity 2020 conference in Miami. Low wages coupled with the high cost of living, lead to unaffordable housing.…
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High housing costs, low pay force Florida teachers to stretch limits
High housing costs, low pay force Florida teachers to stretch limits By Ryan McKinnonStaff Writer-www.heraldtribune.comPosted Mar 4, 2020 at 10:25 AM In nearly every corner of Florida, teachers don’t make enough to pay for housing The students in Ms. Stringer’s chemistry class at North Port High School would crack up when Alex Foley, 17, slipped…
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AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS: PALM BEACH COUNTY BOND ISSUE
AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS: PALM BEACH COUNTY BOND ISSUECounty can no longer wait on state lawmakers for housing funds By Jack Weir, Posted March 1, 2020 https://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/20200301/weir-palm-beach-county-can-no-longer-wait-on-state-for-housing-funds It’s time for Palm Beach County, the third largest county in Florida with a population greater than that of 11 states, to stop waiting for the state to act…
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Home prices reach post-crash high, reverse months of tepid growth
By Jeff Ostrowski Posted Jun 21, 2019 at 9:43 AM Updated Jun 21, 2019 at 4:26 PM The median price of houses sold by Realtors jumped to $364,900. And the number of houses sold rose to 1,871, up 8.7 percent from May 2018, Realtors said Friday Click Here to Read More…
