Real estate blog entries tagged with affordable by Steven Webster (Florida Workforce Housing Network)

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affordable: Property Taxes and Affordable Housing: They Matter! - 10/19/07 02:58 PM

In my capacity as editor of Florida Workforce Housing Network, I interviewed senior Tallahassee lobbyist and affordable housing expert Dr. Jeffry Sharkey, CEO of Capitol Alliance Group in Tallahassee. The topic: why is property tax reform so important to affordable housing? His answer wasn't the obvious one:
12 QUESTIONS: Tallahassee lobbyist Dr. … (0 comments)

affordable: NIMBYs Will Try Porn Claim Tonight To Derail Ascot's Delray Beach CWHIP Project - 10/16/07 12:26 PM

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. --- Eliot Kleinberg at the Palm Beach Post reports that neighbors opposed to a CWHIP-financed 116-unit town home project with a three-story, 30,000-square-foot medical office building plan to pack the Delray Beach city council chambers tonight and play their 'porno' card to stop it. Someone's been watching to … (0 comments)

affordable: 'Affordable,' 'Attainable,' 'Value' are hottest new buzz words for Fla. home builders - 10/15/07 08:01 AM

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Across Florida, many of the same production home builders who rode the pricing explosion 'to infinity...and beyond' back in 2005 are positioning their homes for a new generation of post-bubble buyers who favor 'affordable' over old-school buzz words like 'luxury,' 'gated' and 'resort style.' Yesterday Lennar's Tampa Bay … (3 comments)

affordable: Beachfront Gulf of Mexico and Under $70,000---brilliant! - 10/01/07 06:50 AM

HUDSON, Fla. --- Here's a very bright, brand new idea that's bound to see some replay across the state: beachfront (sort of) mobile homes (well, not really) over garages (state law) that are priced at under $70,000 (plus lot lease, just like manufactured homes). Jodie Tillman at the St. Pete Times … (2 comments)

affordable: Lennar in Zephyrhills: 1,371-square foot town homes priced from $130's - 09/27/07 05:56 AM

TAMPA, Fla. --- One of the nation's most prolific home builders is selling new, 1,371-square foot town homes in Zephyrhills northeast of Tampa priced from the $130's, according to a company news release. Lennar's Eiland Park Town Homes is a gated community located near S.R. 54 and Eiland Blvd. with its … (2 comments)

affordable: Miami Architect's Affordable Housing Designs Star of Punta Gorda Groundbreaking Today - 09/07/07 06:22 AM

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 three market-value apartments. The Gulf … (0 comments)

affordable: Sarasota Habitat for Humanity gets $497,000 to build 'new urbanist' affordable housing project - 08/08/07 06:36 PM

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. 'Puppy Park' … (0 comments)

affordable: Students present plans to develop 80 affordable homes...and bankers listen - 08/02/07 02:41 PM

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 real, and there's more than $10 million … (0 comments)

affordable: Bay County (Panama City) Affordable Housing Committee: Woe is Us - 07/30/07 05:14 AM

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 Mike Johnson, community development director for Bay County]. … (0 comments)

affordable: In St. Petersburg, 'affordable' is the new hip phrase for housing---almost - 07/30/07 05:11 AM

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 young urbanites swirling … (0 comments)

affordable: City of Tampa's New Homes Showcase offers buyers up to $60,000 in financial aid - 07/25/07 10:22 PM

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 Ave. in Tampa.
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affordable: Orlando home builders slouching toward affordable - 07/14/07 02:54 PM

ORLANDO, Fla. --- (Apologies to W.B. Yeats) Across Central Florida, home builders are dipping their toes in the cool pool of affordability, reports Anjali Fluker of Orlando Business Journal. But it's not their fault. ...the white-hot housing boom of 2004 and 2005... saw investors snap up homes intending to flip them for … (1 comments)

affordable: Miami lobbyist probed for flipping 'affordable' condo: 60 days, $92,000 profit - 05/02/07 03:30 AM

MIAMI, Fla. ---The Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office is investigating 'insider' trading Florida style---'flipping' condos for nasty profits at "The Loft" in downtown Miami.
Flipping condos was a cottage industry here before the real estate bubble burst, but this case is different: condo developer The Related Group---the nation's third-largest Hispanic-owned company and one … (1 comments)

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