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Home-Matters-Report-2021.Pdf HOME REPORT FROM THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION 2021 HOME MATTERS 2021 Quick Facts Florida still has a housing affordability crisis. • Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, around 18% of renters and 12% of homeowners with a mortgage fell behind on their housing payments. Federal moratoriums and forbearance options stabilized many of those households so far, but without additional assistance hundreds of thousands of Florida families are at risk of eviction or foreclosure in 2021. • Before COVID-19, 875,259 very low-income Florida households—including hardworking families, seniors, and people with disabilities—paid more than 50% of their incomes for housing. There were over 70,000 fewer severely cost-burdened very low-income households in 2019 compared to the year before. • Florida has the third-highest homeless population of any state in the nation, with 27,640 people living in homeless shelters and on the streets. • Low-wage jobs are prevalent in Florida’s economy. In many occupations, workers do not earn enough to rent a modest apartment or buy their first home. THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION | FLHOUSING.ORG A REPORT FROM THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION ONE Introduction: Why Does Home Matter?.........................................................1 The Benefits of Affordable Housing...................................................................2 Health and Education Benefits.......................................................................3 SECTION TWO By The Numbers: Housing Cost Burden in Florida..............................................5 Housing Costs for Low-Income Families.................................................................5 Housing Cost Burden and Tenure ......................................................................6 Homelessness.......................................................................................8 Low-Wage Jobs......................................................................................9 Housing and Transportation Costs ....................................................................10 SECTION THREE Challenges for Renters........................................................................12 Mismatch Between Rents and Wages................................................................12 Shortage of Affordable and Available Rental Units......................................................13 Loss of Affordable Rental Housing..................................................................13 Renter Incomes Lagging Behind.....................................................................14 SECTION FOUR Challenges for Homebuyers..................................................................15 Ownership Costs Exceed Wages for Many Occupations.................................................15 Rising Home Prices..................................................................................16 Racial Disparities in Homeownership and Housing Instability. 17 SECTION FIVE The Impact of COVID-19 on Housing in Florida.............................................19 Covid-19 Exacerbated the Affordable Housing Shortage..................................................19 Ship Funding is Needed to Address Housing Inequality................................................21 Over a Million Households Are Behind on Their Mortgage or Rent . 22 New Single Family Home Construction is Up While Housing Inventory of Supply is Still Down. 22 SECTION SIX The Sadowski Housing Trust Funds...........................................................24 Sadowski History and Major Programs................................................................24 Impact of Sadowski Trust Funds.....................................................................25 Conclusion ...................................................................................25 Affordable Housing is Essential for Floridians..........................................................26 We Don’t Have Enough Affordable Housing in Florida................................................26 There is a Large and Growing Gap Between Income and Housing Costs. 26 The Good News ...................................................................................26 Endnotes....................................................................................30 FLHOUSING.ORG | THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION HOME MATTERS 2021 Why Does Home Matter? The health, safety, and welfare of Floridians and the strength of Florida’s economy depend on a sufficient supply of housing affordable to Florida’s working families, elders, and people with disabilities living on fixed incomes. Housing that is affordable reduces taxpayer expenses • For seniors and people with disabilities, housing that is both affordable that is community-based is significantly less than institutional care costs. • Chronically homeless persons often cycle through jails, hospitals, and other crisis services. Permanent supportive housing for this high-need population can considerably reduce the cost to taxpayers. • Housing that is affordable can improve the health and educational outcomes for low-income families and their children, reducing costs associated with illness and poor school performance. Housing affordability boosts the economy • Money spent on housing construction and rehabilitation has a ripple effect on local economies. Contractors and suppliers spend money on materials and labor, and workers spend their earnings locally. • If the Florida Legislature fully appropriates the Sadowski Housing Trust Fund for housing, it will create nearly 33,000 jobs and have $4.9 billion in positive impact in just one year while creating homes lasting far into the future. The Florida Housing Coalition has produced this report in support of Home Matters® (www. HomeMattersAmerica.com), a national movement to make Home a reality for everyone by elevating the importance of Home’s impact on people’s health, education, personal success, public safety, and the economy. Participating in Home Matters is a coast-to-coast coalition composed of members of the general public, leaders of housing and community development organizations, as well as other organizations concerned about increasing the positive impact of home in their communities. THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION | FLHOUSING.ORG A REPORT FROM THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION SECTION ONE: Introduction: Why Does Home Matter? When it comes to housing, Florida has seen both triumphs and ongoing challenges in 2020. Compared to other states in the nation, Florida enjoys access to an incredible source of funding for housing: the Sadowski State and Local Government Housing Trust Funds. At the time of this report’s publication, the Florida Legislature is considering the appropriations for FY 2021-22, including whether to use all the Housing Trust Funds for housing in Florida. At the same time, community leaders and residents across the state are calling out for help in the face of soaring housing costs and a shrinking supply of housing that is affordable. The COVID-19 pandemic brought a dramatic increase in the cost of homeowner housing while tens of thousands of Floridians fell behind on their rent or mortgage payments. Everyone needs a safe, stable place to call home. However, to invest in housing. These incentives come from because housing is a valuable commodity, priced at public-private partnerships among lenders, real estate whatever the market will bear, the private market by itself professionals, community-based nonprofit organizations, is unable to provide homes and apartments for many and local, state, and federal agencies. Housing funders workers, elders, and people with disabilities. Since the typically require standards for building quality, amenities, Great Recession, new housing construction has not kept and property management that equal or exceed market pace with demand in Florida. In many communities, even rate housing, ensuring that subsidized units look and modest homes and apartments are priced out of reach for feel like any other home. Every partner and every funding essential workers (including teachers and police officers) source in this community effort—public, private, and or are torn down and replaced with high-end houses, nonprofit—is an essential piece of the puzzle. This report apartments, and condominiums. Even in communities with outlines the need for greater rental and ownership housing more moderate housing costs, many residents struggle to affordability in Florida and highlights the Sadowski State find good quality affordable housing if they work in low- and Local Government Housing Trust Funds’ importance wage jobs or live on fixed incomes. in meeting this need.housing affordability in Florida and highlights the importance of the Sadowski State and Local The way to correct this market failure is to provide financial Trust Funds in meeting this need. incentives that make it profitable for private developers FLHOUSING.ORG | THE FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION 1 HOME MATTERS 2021 What is Housing The Benefits of Housing Affordability that is Affordable? Economic Benefits Misconceptions are Housing stimulates state and local economies. When a developer creates housing widespread, with many that is affordable through new construction or rehabilitation, the community gains citizens associating jobs through direct, indirect, and induced economic impacts1 (see the sidebar “affordable housing” on page 3). For example, each dollar of Sadowski State and Local Housing Trust with large,
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