Historic Bipartisan Support for Affordable Housing in Florida
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THE JOURNAL OF THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION, INC. NEWS NETWORK VOLUME 34, NUMBER 1 Historic Bipartisan Support for Affordable Housing Affordable Housing in Florida Workgroup Recommendations 2018 Legislation Filed to Stop Sadowski Trust Fund Sweeps Speedy Resolution for NIMBY-Driven No Votes Good News November 14, 2017 | A1 from the Field: Homelessness in State Senator Passidomo Files Bipartisan Florida is on Affordable Housing Legislation the Decline The SHIP Response to Hurricane Irma Tammppa Bay Times State needs to spend more TTaallahasseellahassee — With representativesrepresentatives fromfrom the the 330 0 of our available housing resources toward on af didiverseverse sstatewidetatewide organizations that make up sosolvinglving oourur affordablefordable hhousingousing prpproblem.oblo fordablefor housing em.emm NoN vemb dable housin thethe SaSadowskidowowwskskkii CCoCoalitionallilition jjjoiningoiiinniing hheherr iin fffrontront oooff vember 27, 2017 | Edi Af , 2017 | Editoria the FloridaFloririridad Senate Chamber doors in ththee StStateate Florida’s state and local housing trust fund fordable housinghous is intotoorial shortashortage st ing is g CapitoCapitol inin Tallahassee, State Senatorator Kathleen programs are national models – they work,ork, but geg st inn GoGovv. 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A er the late N demand.dema 255 years, legislators OvOvere the have last jujust 13 percent. increase filedfiled lelegislation,giissls ation, SeSenatennate Bill 874, to stopstop the Passidomo.domo. nd. ance years, legisl r the la st 13 percent. d On the bright side, Scott deadline, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reported its disaster assist reallocatedre nearlyators $2 havest sweepssweeps ooff the StatStatee aandnd Local HoHousingusing Trustrust aalllocate — ahead of ed 273,000 homes in Florida and spoken with more thanWi 17th5, $322000 million sitting billionbill in moneyd nearly meant $2 These trends are all Fund,” ssasaidaid SenatoSenatorr PPassassiteamsidomo. had “W ithvisit this “I filedfiled HB 191 in the HouseHouse beforebefore ourouu $322 million liion in m run for U.S. Senatean expected — is in the forfor housing tooney pet meant projects movingmo in the same legislatlegislatiion,oonnn, this mumuch-nech-neededresidents. fundingfunding ccaan housinghousing needs werewere exacerbatedexacerbated by HHurricane sstate’tate’ss af sittinng hhousing to pet projects ving in the sa proposi housinghousing trust fordable andand ootother budge perilous me substantialng someinvestments in become a certaintyertainty, andand we can beginbegin to use allall Irma and the displacementdisplacement ooff our fefellowllo trust funds, Sco her bu direction. Condo disasters in Texas, California, Puerto Ricoandand and the el LegislatuLegislaturesewhefunds,re, should Scott It’s nnoo wonderdget Floridat needs.needs. has towers and pricey housing programs. His While FEMA juggles Irma with ttt wonder Florida ha and price Cond e Floridians’ housing needs are prioritized. There is no better way troe shou an aafffffordablefoor housing subdivisions haveh y begun budget includes $20 the state must ensur lld crisiscris dable housing s unds created 25 years ago to address the state’s affordable housing iss. rising agagaina sinceave the begun million for workforce start than the trust f hohousi in since th issues. using mamarketrket e housing in the Florida recovered, but thosthose Keys, which was wiped e out by Hurricane Irma; $96.3 million for Florida EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE THE HOUSING NEWS NETWORK George Romagnoli, CHAIR IN THIS VOLUME 34, ISSUE 1 Ed Busansky, IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR First Housing Development Corporation Aileen Pruitt, VICE CHAIR ISSUE: PNC Bank Ben Johnson, TREASURER 1 FROM THE EDITOR Seltzer Management Group, Inc. Anything but Boring Robert Von, SECRETARY Meridian Appraisal Group, Inc. 2 SADOWSKI COALITION Donald Hadsell, AT LARGE Press Conference | November 14, 2017 City of Sarasota Mark Hendrickson, AT LARGE 5 SHIP DISTRIBUTION ESTIMATES The Hendrickson Company FY 2018-2019 Jeff Kiss, AT LARGE Kiss & Company, Inc. 6 AFFORDABLE HOUSING 2 Melvin Philpot, AT LARGE RESOURCES Duke Energy Available 24/7 Christine Ruiz, AT LARGE Bank of America 7 Affordable Housing Workgroup RECOMMENDATIONS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Robert Ansley, Jr. 9 Speedy Resolution for Orlando Neighborhood Improvement Corp. NIMBY-DRIVEN NO VOTES Stephen Bender University of Florida 11 Good News from the Field: Stephanie Berman-Eisenberg HOMELESSNESS IN FLORIDA Carrfour Supportive Housing IS ON THE DECLINE 9 11 Suzanne Cabrera Housing Leadership Council of Palm BeachCounty, Inc. 14 Local Government Area of Opportunity Funding — Eryn Calabro Leon County A FANCY PHRASE FOR AN 16 IMPROVED HOUSING CREDIT Charles Elsesser Community Justice Project SELECTION PROCESS Armando Fana City of West Palm Beach 16 The SHIP Response to: Bradford Goar HURRICANE IRMA Florida Power and Light David Hall 18 SHIP CLIPS Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate Frequently Asked SHIP Questions Jack Humburg Boley Centers, Inc. 20 30th Annual Affordable Housing Barbara Inman CONFERENCE Habitat for Humanity of Florida Christine Long 38 ABOUT THE FLORIDA