01 / 06 / 2012
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As a businessman outsider, Rick Scott promised to ditch the old tricks politicians used when it came to passing the state budget. Part of that pledge was to balance the budget "without gimmicks, one-time revenues, borrowed funds, temporary funds, or tax increases." Read the full PolitiFact article.
12 / 16 / 2011
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With the Legislature again facing a revenue shortfall for some $2 billion, Florida's affordable-housing trust funds will once more be at risk. As we've seen in the past, the term "trust fund" offers no protection from legislative raiders willing to go to any lengths to avoid raising tax revenues to pay the state's bills. Read the full Lakeland Ledger article
12 / 12 / 2011
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Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Legislature have the ability to create nearly 9,000 jobs and $900 million in economic impact in fiscal year 2012-2013, by appropriating the state and local housing trust fund money for housing, rather than sweeping those funds dedicated to housing into general revenue. Read the full letter, written by Jaimie Ross, Facilitator of the Sadowski Coalition, in the Lakeland Ledger
12 / 06 / 2011
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Gov. Scott and the Florida Legislature have the ability to create almost 9,000 jobs and $900 million in economic impact in fiscal year 2012-13, by appropriating the state and local housing trust fund money for housing, rather than sweeping those dedicated funds into general revenue. Read the full Letter to the Editor written by Jaimie Ross, FHC President and Sadowski Coalition Facilitator
12 / 05 / 2011
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Scott Pelley brings "60 Minutes" cameras back to central Florida to document another form of family homelessness: kids and their parents forced to live in cars. Watch the "60 Minutes" story
12 / 02 / 2011
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The Orlando Sentinel supports keeping trust fund money for housing. Almost 20 years ago, Florida legislators increased a tax on real-estate transactions to create a trust fund that would finance state and local affordable-housing initiatives. They did so at the urging of a coalition of business groups, local governments and advocates for the poor and elderly. Read the full story
