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(Cross-posted from Florida Workforce Housing Newtwork.)FORT MYERS, Fla. --- Lee Co. commishers will consider raising impact fees 250 percent for developers who want to increase density in new subdivisions with market-priced homes. The proceeds would help fund affordable housing efforts. Developer...
08/10/2007
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. --- Don't look now, but Pinellas County could be looking at an affordable housing boom. That's a stretch, of course, but consider this: Pinellas Co. school enrollment is down---way down. So down that the school board told School Superintendent Dr. Clayton Wilcox, left, to pic...
08/09/2007
SARASOTA, FLA. --- Habitat for Humanity Sarasota, Inc. scored a $497,000 pre-development grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta to pay for part of the first phase of "Puppy Park," 215 town homes and condominiums on a 16.5-acre former parking lot adjacent to the Sarasota Kennel Club. 'Pu...
08/08/2007
"We've followed the rules legally, but we're morally wrong here."---Hallandale Beach vice mayor Bill Julian HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. --- Hallandale Beach, Fla., vice mayor Bill Julian read tripoli's weekend story, Hallandale Beach, Fla. commishers turn greedy scumbag developers, plan to evict elder...
08/06/2007
Hallandale Beach, Florida---City commishers voted to buy up some of the last affordable housing in Hallandale Beach and evict 84 residents---mostly elderly and mostly poor, including one WWI vet with terminal lung cancer---to make way for an expanded city park. Is this how democracy is supposed t...
08/04/2007
Tampa, Florida---Students in the summer Community Real Estate Development course at the University of South Florida presented eight different projects to develop more than 80 affordable homes as an audience of bankers and developers listened. A learning experience? Every one of the projects is re...
08/02/2007
PANAMA CITY, Fla. --- Bay Co.'s new Affordable Housing Committee kicked off its inaugural meeting Friday by boldly lowering expectations. Jeremy Morrison posted a report yesterday at NewsHerald.com in Panama City:  “Realistically, some people aren’t going to get a house,” ...said [Board member Mi...
07/29/2007
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. --- Once a worldwide mecca for the aging, St. Petersburg is quickly reinventing itself as stylish market of young families and singles, as Cristina Silva reported in Sunday's St. Petersburg Times: Witness the hipsters spilling out of the Emerald Bar on a Saturday night or the...
07/29/2007
PALATKA, Fla. --- Palatka, Fla., and Putnam Co. plan to sell up to 12 publicly-owned home sites for $1 each and use $500,000 in U.S. Dept. of Agriculture grant funds to spur development of 12 new homes, half in the city and half in the county. John Nelson, executive director of the Palatka Housin...
07/26/2007
TAMPA, Fla. --- This is how you rebuild neighborhoods with families, not facades and franchise stores. The City of Tampa and Tampa's Housing and Community Development Dept. are hosting a New Single-Family Homes Showcase on Saturday, July 28, 2007 at the Ragan Park Community Center, 1200 E. Lake A...
07/25/2007
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Florida Workforce Housing Network is a group 'blog' that focuses on news about affordable housing in Florida.