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...
11 / 24 / 2009
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Enormous mortgage financing errors have been made in Florida – but not in affordable housing. We can take pride in knowing that homebuyers and renters living in the housing produced with Sadowski Act monies are not associated with toxic mortgages. The typical SHIP assisted homebuyer received pre and post purchase counseling and a fixed rate...
11 / 24 / 2008
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$6.2 Billion Stimulus for Florida’s Economy at Stake: Housing Trust Funds Must be Used for Housing The cap on the Affordable housing trust funds went into effect in July, 2007. That means that the distribution of monies collected from the revenue dedicated to affordable housing from the Sadowski Act is now limited to a maximum of $244 millio...
09 / 11 / 2008
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Housing: The New Environment, turned out to be far newer than the Florida Housing Coalition had anticipated with passage of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) in late July. Quick to respond, our presenters peppered key HERA provisions throughout the conference plenary sessions and workshops.
03 / 11 / 2008
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Just a few hours before the close of the 2008 session, it looked like there would be a great deal of copy for this post legislative session edition of the Journal. But there’s no need to go into great detail about the omnibus housing bill because it will not become law this year. In the last few hours of the last day of session, SB 482, whic...
12 / 11 / 2007
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Repeal of the Cap: Legislative Priority Number One for 2007...
