By: Phil Prazan | NBC 6 South Florida After years of diverting billions of dollars meant for affordable housing to other projects, state lawmakers delivered what housing advocates asked for and fully funded programs to help people stay in their homes and aid the...
Despite a plea to fully fund affordable housing programs in the new state budget, the House’s top budget leader says his chamber is likely to look again at shifting some of the housing money to other spending priorities in the 2 South Florida has become unaffordable...
By Lynn Hatter | WFSU A deal struck last year between the legislature and the state’s main affordable housing arm appears to be in jeopardy as the House and Senate prepare to reconcile their rival spending plans. For decades the Florida legislature has swept money...
By Caroline Glenn | Orlando Sentinel After lawmakers voted to permanently divert half of the state’s affordable housing trust fund to other projects, the Florida Realtors Association is pushing back and spearheading a constitutional amendment that would restore the...
By Valerie Crowder State lawmakers this year permanently slashed the affordable housing trust fund’s revenue share, while also passing a guarantee that housing dollars would never again pay for other expenses. “It’s going to be recurring revenue not subject to...
By Fox 13 News Staff | Fox 13 News TAMPA, Fla. – Hillsborough County is offering financial assistance for those having a hard time paying rent due to being impacted by COVID-19. The county says $44 million has been allocated from the CARES Act of 2021 for its...
