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Affordable Housing in Florida
Affordable Housing Roles and Needs of Local Governments and Community-based Organizations in Florida
A Decent Place to Live
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 170
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Building Partnerships
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The State Housing Initiatives Program (SHIP) focuses on the creation of affordable housing in communities across Florida. ... [V]arious facets of the community must work together to address local needs. This cooperative effort of a range of community members is known as a housing partnership. The State of Florida, Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has developed this guide to assist communities to create and implement effective partnerships.
Promoting Affordable Housing
Barriers to Affordable Housing Rehabilitation
Author: Mark E. Ludlow
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Published: 2008
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analysis of the case study results revealed that certain barriers at the local level are not addressed in the literature; conversely, barriers that receive considerable attention in the literature were found to be relatively minor in Alachua County. The latter barriers include the small number of rehabilitation programs available locally; the large amount of paperwork required for State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) program-funded rehabilitation; time consuming, cumbersome program guidelines; and insufficient individual award amounts.
Growth Management in Florida
Author: Timothy S.Chapin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1351156993
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Despite its historical significance and its state-mandated comprehensive planning approach, the Florida growth management experiment has received only piecemeal attention from researchers. Drawing together contributions from national experts on land use planning and growth management, this volume assesses the outcomes of Florida‘s approach for managing growth. As Florida‘s approach is the most detailed system for managing growth in the United States, this book will be of great value to planners. The strengths and weaknesses of the state‘s approach are identified, providing insights into how to manage land use change in a state continuously inundated by growth. In evaluating the successes and failures of the Florida approach, planners and policy makers will gain insights into how to successfully implement growth management policies at both the state and local level.
Rental Housing After Subsidy
Author: Caleb Stewart
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Published: 2010
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →ABSTRACT: Much of the nation's rental housing is affordable to low income families as a result of local, state and national government subsidy programs that help to keep rents low. Property owners receive incentives such as rent subsidies and below market interest rate loans in exchange for keeping rents affordable to low income households for a designated period of time (Center for Housing Policy, 2008). These properties are subject to regular inspections during the designated period of time to ensure that they continue to provide quality housing to their tenants. Physical deterioration is a problem for the subsidized rental housing stock, since it can render a building uninhabitable or force an owner to raise the property's rents in order to rehabilitate the building. If a property fails an inspection, subsidies and below market interest rate loans attached to the property can be withdrawn, forcing the owner to sell the property or raise rents to market rate. Additionally, as a property's contract to provide affordable housing expires, an owner can choose to opt out of the subsidy program and raise their rents to market rates (Center for Housing Policy, 2008).
Affordable Housing in the Florida Keys
Author: Bradley K. Parrish
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Controlling urban growth involves accommodating market forces while preventing the spoil of sprawl (Knaap 2000). Keeping a viable economy and preserving the environment is a balancing act with which planning agencies must contend. Due to concerns over the capacity of the environment to absorb growth and concerns with a safe hurricane evacuation the Florida Keys adopted stringent development controls to regulate the rate and location of growth. However, the tourist based economy in the Florida Keys requires a significant low to moderate income labor force, the high cost of housing excludes many families from the local housing market, and stringent growth control policies make it difficult to provide affordable units. This research paper explores the problems with providing affordable housing within the strict growth management policies of the Florida Keys. The research methodology provides a rational for the provision of affordable units from the limited number of annually allocated residential building permits. The research found that more than 5,000 additional housing units are needed to accommodate current demand and that 26 percent may require housing assistance. However, the total remaining housing allocations is 250 units for the county. The remaining allocations cannot alone accommodate the demand for housing let alone for low income households. The existing housing supply is sufficient to accommodate demand; however, many of these are seasonal homes for residents living outside of the county. The recommendations include the provision of additional building permit allocations and the conversion of existing housing such as transient units into affordable units.
