Florida Workforce Housing News

NAPLES, Fla. --- Rep. Mike Davis, the Naples Republican who authored Florida's affordable housing legislation and served as affordable housing's most prominent voice in the Fla. legislature, passed away this morning.  The family plans Mass at 11 a.m. Saturday, Saint Elizabeth Seton Catholic Churc...

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. --- Coconut Grove architect Abe Kadushin will play a starring role at a groundbreaking ceremony this morning in Punta Gorda. The event marks the start of construction of a $27 million Florida-style community with 85 public housing units, 81 low-income, tax-credit apartments, and...

TAMPA, Fla. --- Calling all community developers: the Community Real Estate Development (CRED) Professional Certificate program at the University of South Florida, a unique summer seminar course at USF's Collaborative for Children, Families and Communities that's guiding 26 participants through d...

ORLANDO, Fla. --- The Center for Affordable Housing, Inc., in Sanford and HUD Certification Training for Realtors® is pleased to present an educational opportunity. Take this class and learn about a unique local program to help qualified first-time homebuyers gain access to bond money as well as ...

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(Cross-posted from Florida Workforce Housing Network.)ORLANDO, Fla. --- Andrew Nothstine of Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, Inc., was the lead presenter at a Professional Development Housing Workshop at the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council in St. Petersburg two weeks ago. He delivered his Pow...

KEY WEST, Fla. --- Kyle Teal at keynoter.com posted this story on Aug. 10: Community groups recently did their part to make Key West's affordable-housing problem a little less of a problem in Bahama Village. And as 10 low-income units go online in that community, the Alliance of Community Housing...

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Universal Studios Orlando plans to develop more than 300 apartment units (and possibly a parking garage???) on a several acres of its current employee parking lot in southwest Orlando. Scott Powers posted the story yesterday in the Orlando Sentinel: "We're looking to put up some...

(Cross-posted from Florida Workforce Housing Network)MIAMI, Fla. --- Students and faculty at Florida International University in Miami are building a 3,200-square foot student-designed Future House USA that combines the organic architecture style of Frank Lloyd Wright, feng-shui, the Chinese art ...

Two reports, both cross-posted from Florida Workforce Housing Network:West Palm Beach, Fla. --- The West Palm Beach Housing Authority announced it will seek a federal grant to demolish the Dunbar Village public housing facility relocate all 317 residents and develop a mixed-use village with housi...