By Sarah Hollenbeck | WFTS Tampa Bay PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — It’s a crisis growing worse by the day. Hundreds of families in Tampa Bay are on waiting lists for affordable housing. Now, communities across the state could be at risk of losing millions of dollars meant...
By Cathy Carter | WUSF Public Media Nearly 30 years ago, the Florida Legislature passed the which placed a surcharge on every real estate transaction in the state. That money then gets split between each county and larger cities to fund local housing programs. This...
By Jaimie Ross | Tampa Bay Times The amount of rental assistance needed everywhere in the nation is staggering. As soon as the declaration of disaster was declared for COVID-19, Florida’s State Housing Initiatives Partnership programs began reprogramming local...
A lack of affordable housing will soon be a problem in more parts of Florida. According to a Florida Housing Coalition report, 921,928 very low-income households are spending more than half of what they earn on housing. Coalition President Jamie Ross says the...
By The Editorial Board | Miami Herald Gov. Ron DeSantis should remain true to his word. He wanted every penny in an affordable-housing trust fund to go to providing what has become a scarce resource in Florida — affordable housing. However, the Legislature fell...
By: Editorial Board | Sun Sentinel Ron DeSantis has cast himself as a different kind of governor from his recent predecessors. Here’s a way he can demonstrate that difference. Back in 1992, when Tallahassee was known for good-government ideas, the Legislature created...
