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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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Developers of two Palm Beach Gardens housing projects are making payments, and one has proposed building apartments for working people at the corner of PGA Boulevard and U.S. 1.
PALM BEACH GARDENS — The city’s strategy for spurring developers to build housing that police officers, firefighters, teachers and government employees can afford has not yet emerged, but the city is making advances toward so-called workforce housing anyway. Gardens essentials: Walkable streets, hotels, workforce housing, economists urge Here’s what’s happened to date. Gardens: Avenir can…
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Housing Leadership Council receives $100K grant
Staff report JP Morgan Chase & Co. has given a $100,000 grant to the Housing Leadership Council of Palm Beach County. The purpose of the grant is to reduce the cost of housing for educators throughout the county and allow the HLC to explore opportunities that will provide Palm Beach County School District employees with…
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JPMorgan Chase Invests $100,000 in Housing Leadership Council for Affordable Housing Feasibility Study
November 28, 2018For Immediate Release JPMorgan Chase Invests $100,000 in Housing Leadership Council for Affordable Housing Feasibility Study West Palm Beach, FL – Palm Beach County may soon be able to attract and retain more teachers with the help of a feasibility grant awarded to the Housing Leadership Council (HLC) of Palm Beach County, Inc.…
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Affordable housing is not impossible to build. We just need the political will.
BY LOUIS WOLFSON III pinnaclehousing.com October 08, 2018 04:06 PM Housing is typically residents’ largest expenditure and, for many, the cost is growing out of control. Whether someone owns or rents, it is an ever-increasing challenge for most South Floridians to afford even modest housing that is accessible to employment, good schools, shopping, entertainment, recreation…
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Florida lawmakers must stop directing affordable housing funds elsewhere, influencers say
By Adam Wollner awollner@mcclatchydc.com October 08, 2018 05:00 AM Updated October 08, 2018 05:13 PM Year after year, Florida lawmakers have raided hundreds of millions from trust funds designed to develop more affordable housing. That practice needs to end, according to a group of the state’s leading political and policy voices. In a new survey…
