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Sadowski Trust housing funds will help Florida’s ‘most vulnerable’ now more than ever | Opinion
By Jamie RossSpecial to the Sun SentinelApr 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…
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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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The state collects a tax to fund affordable housing. Once again, the Legislature is swiping millions to spend on other things
For the eleventh year in a row, state lawmakers plan to swipe millions from a state fund that’s supposed to go to solve Florida’s affordable housing crisis and instead will use it for other things. Click Here to Read More
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Point of View: Sadowski dollars for affordable housing re-allocated to general revenue
Posted Apr 20, 2019 at 7:01 AM It is time to spend Housing Trust Fund dollars on housing… Most people are shocked when I tell them that the Florida Legislature routinely sweeps funds from the Affordable Housing Trust Funds into general revenue. They ask how can they take funds collected for affordable housing and not…
