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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
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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
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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
