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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Advocacy Articl...
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
12 / 08 / 2009
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In the context of this book, the "Not In MY Backyard Syndrome" refers to the objection of community resident to siting affordable housing. The term NIMBYism, as used in this context, connects objections made for reasons such as fear and prejudice. This is in contrast, for example, to objections over the real threat of an incompatib...
12 / 08 / 2009
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Shimberg Center Publications and Presentations. Recent publications and presentations by the Shimberg Center for Housing Studies View the Shimberg Center For Housing Studies In Detail Here
12 / 08 / 2009
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The link below provides a list of publications by NHC's research affiliate the Center for Housing Policy, as well as older publications by NHC. www.nhc.org/housing/pubs-descriptions
