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‘There’s no more room in Florida’ says mom who blames high prices on newcomers.
By: Kimberly Miller | Palm Beach Post Young adults and low-wage workers aren’t the only ones suffering from soaring rents as middle-age and middle-income Floridians also face downsizing homes and lifestyles that they spent, in some cases, decades attaining. READ ARTICLE Photo by Thomas Cordy | Palm Beach Post
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Why doesn’t Florida have enough affordable housing? The legislature may be partly to blame
This battle comes as the state’s real estate market continues to price out homeowners and renters alike. A deal struck last year between the legislature and the state’s main affordable housing arm appears to be in jeopardy as the House and Senate prepare to reconcile their rival spending plans. For decades the Florida legislature has…
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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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Secretary Ben Carson Visits Affordable Housing Communities and Holds Ribbon Cutting to Celebrate Completion of New Development
By: HUD Public AffairsHUD No. 20-087 The newly completed ‘Home at Tamarind’ is made up of 6 units for developmentally delayed adults who are either homeless or on the verge of becoming homeless. WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Today, Secretary Carson traveled to West Palm Beach, Florida to meet with City Mayor Keith James, local…
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Affordable Housing in Fla. Gets Boost Through New Law
By Tom ButlerFlorida Realtors The new law – a Florida Realtors’ priority during the 2020 session of the Florida Legislature – expands zoning for affordable-housing sites along with other changes. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 1339 into law this week, creating new tools for local governments to use as they work…
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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…
