05 / 20 / 2010
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Just Released: FY 2010 Income Limits HUD has released the estimated median family incomes (MFIs) and income limits for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010. MFIs are used as the basis for income limits in several HUD programs (including the Public Housing, Housing Choice Voucher, CDBG, and HOME programs), as well as in programs run by the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Treasury, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and Government Sponsored Enterprises
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
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
12 / 11 / 2009
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The last edition of the Housing News Journal focused on the essential role that affordable housing plays in Florida’s economic recovery. Our two priority issues for the 2009 legislative session were repeal of the cap on the trust funds and appropriation of the housing trust fund monies for housing
12 / 11 / 2009
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An entrance road leading to large single family lots of equal size on roads with cul-de-sacs in a subdivision with one way in and one way out. That’s a pretty typical suburban development in Florida, and there are certainly families who enjoy that lifestyle. But a growing number of Floridians do not. They are looking for a more urban environment in which large privately owned green space gives way to public parks, and compact residential development is in walking distance to shops and community activities. This is the move from sprawl to smart growth
