February 2014 Archives
Our Opinion: No More Sweeps
February 1, 2014 | Tallahassee Democrat
Imagine this: In working out your family budget, you pledge one August to set aside $10 a week expressly to help buy new school clothes for the kids each year.
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Editorial: Stop trust fund raids
February 5, 2014 | Pensacola News Journal
Imagine this: In working out your family budget, you pledge one August to set aside $10 a week expressly to help buy new school clothes for the kids each year.
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Guest column: State should fund affordable housing fund
February 6, 2014 | Florida Times-Union
The State Housing Incentives Partnership program (SHIP) is Florida’s nationally acclaimed model for using a dedicated revenue source to effectively and efficiently meet community housing needs.
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Paul Flemming: Dishonest budgeting in sweeps season
February 7, 2014 | Tallahassee Democrat
This is what it’s come to. Merely pointing it out hasn’t worked. Pleading and cajoling failed. Shaming and excoriating has proved fruitless. I am reduced to reverse psychology.
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Jaimie Ross: SHIP will prosper if we protect its funding
February 8, 2014 | Tallahassee Democrat
The State Housing Incentives Partnership program (SHIP) is Florida’s nationally acclaimed model for using a dedicated revenue source to effectively and efficiently meet community housing needs.
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EDITORIAL: Protect affordable housing program
February 8, 2014 | Tampa Tribune
You would think the governor and state lawmakers would be falling all over themselves to protect a state program that creates jobs, boosts local economies and provides housing for Floridians who would otherwise be left out of the American dream of home ownership.
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Guest column: Jamie Ross: IN CELEBRATION OF SHIP: PERFORMANCE, TRANSPARENCY, AND ACCOUNTABILITY
February 9, 2014 | Naples Daily News
The State Housing Incentives Partnership program (SHIP) is Florida’s nationally acclaimed model for using a dedicated revenue source to effectively and efficiently meet community housing needs
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Legislature should stop taking from proven housing program
February 10, 2014| Tampa Tribune
The State Housing Incentives Partnership program (SHIP) is Florida’s nationally acclaimed model for using a dedicated revenue source to effectively and efficiently meet community housing needs.
It has a proven track record for performance, transparency and accountability. Unfortunately, it also has a record of being swept into general revenue when the state faces a budget deficit.
Housing affordability gap is growing
February 20, 2014 | Sarasota Herald-Tribune
The American dream of home ownership has become drastically less affordable for many working families in Southwest Florida, new figures show.
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Housing Not So Affordable
February 25, 2014 | Capitol News Service
In 1992 state lawmakers raised the doc stamp tax on real estate transactions from 60 to 70 cents on every 100 dollars. The cash was to be used for affordable housing. But when the great recession hit, lawmakers started using the money for everything but housing. Advocates say it’s now time for the state to fulfill its promise.
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Realtors, homebuilders call on lawmakers not to raid affordable housing trust fund
February 25, 2014 | Florida Current
Groups representing homeless advocates, realtors, homebuilders, federal housing program administrators and other organizations banded together Tuesday to push legislators not to sweep the affordable housing trust fund this year.
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