02 / 24 / 2010
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Florida is beginning to recover from a severe economic downturn, which has resulted in a drop in doc stamp and other revenues. Although for-sale housing costs have retreated from all-time highs, the median priced home in Florida is still unaffordable to a large and growing segment of our citizens - including the workers who fill the critical service industry jobs which are essential to Florida. These workers most often need affordable rental housing, the demand for which is strong and growing
02 / 24 / 2010
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The Florida Housing Coalition is a member of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) and with the NLIHC, keeps the Florida Congressional Delegation abreast of housing conditions in Florida. As the new year opens and Congress returns to Washington, there are several major legislative initiatives affecting very low income and extreme low income tenants, which will likely be considered, among them funding the National Housing Trust Fund, significant changes to the Housing Choice voucher program, and new public housing preservation and redevelopment proposals
02 / 24 / 2010
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Housing is Key to Economic Recovery: Housing = Jobs
02 / 24 / 2010
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Whenever someone asks me how I got into affordable housing, I tell them the story about the “Nuns in Apopka.” I was a land use and real property lawyer in an Orlando law firm in the late ‘80s when I was introduced to Catholic nuns in Apopka who were struggling to develop two single family farm worker subdivisions with Housing Pre...
01 / 26 / 2010
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Legislative Wrap-Up 2009 The omnibus housing bill for 2009 (HB 161 and SB 1042) was amended onto growth management legislation (SB 360). An article about the growth management portion of SB 360 authored by Charles Pattison, executive director of 1000 Friends of Florida, is on page 12...
12 / 17 / 2009
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In an impossibly tight budget year, the Florida Housing Coalition's statewide annual conference drew a tremendous reception; over 650 housing participants. It was an event chocked full of housing resources and pressing policy issues, but no topic hotter than the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. After all, but for federal stimulus monies (includ...
12 / 12 / 2009
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Floridians were indeed very “young” in 1992 when Hurricane Andrew took a shark bite out of Florida’s southeastern flank, nearly flattening a metropolitan civilization. We were indeed wiser when the storms of 2004 and 2005 crisscrossed the state with cones of uncertainty that with precision devastated thousands of homes alon...
12 / 11 / 2009
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In 2006, the Florida Affordable Housing Study Commission urged the adoption of a comprehensive statewide affordable housing preservation strategy. Since then, Florida has made progress towards creating a policy environment that supports preserving and improving the state’s affordable rental homes. Notably, this progress has included the creation of a preservation set aside in the state’s Low Income Housing Tax Credit program administered by the Florida Housing Finance Corporation
