07 / 13 / 2010
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On behalf of the board and staff of the Florida Housing Coalition, I extend our appreciation to our members who worked so valiantly on the Sadowski Education Effort for the 2010 legislative session. The Sadowski Education Effort resulted in: •Local government resolutions adopted across the state, calling upon the legislature to repeal the cap...
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
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...
