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Florida Workforce Housing Network is a group 'blog' that focuses on news about affordable housing in Florida.
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Four of us who shoulder most of the work here at Florida Workforce Housing Network monitor about 100 newspapers and at least that many web sites, searching for news about affordable housing development in Florida. We don't catch all of it, but we catch much of it, and we've started a small collec...
07/25/2007
MIAMI, Fla. --- Pinnacle Housing Group, one of Miami's most influential developers,  and Miami mayor Manny Diaz celebrated the existence of Los Sueños, a 13-story, 179-unit affordable-rental project Pinnacle opened a few months ago. Diaz marked the solemn occasion by hugging a family that recentl...
07/20/2007
(Cross-posted from Florida Workforce Housing Network.) "North Port became the region's ground zero for speculation." "A 1,600-square-foot home built in 2004 that might have commanded $203,000 during the boom is now worth $60,000 less, Black said. An acre of land that went for $50,000 two years ag...
07/17/2007
(Cross-posted with permission from Florida Workforce Housing Network). MIAMI, Fla. --- Average housing prices in Miami need to drop by 40 percent if Miami is to restore its historic income-to-housing costs ratio, according to Irvine, Calif.-based John Burns Real Estate Consulting. But, as Miami's...
07/16/2007
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 in...
07/14/2007
TAMPA, Fla. --- The CDC of Tampa, Inc., will host an open house Sat., July 14 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at 2907 N. 24th St. in Tampa. The reason? "To celebrate the availability of our newly designed homes," said Ernest Coney, Jr., Chief Operations Officer at CDC of Tampa, Inc. Mr. Coney is wel...
07/05/2007
BRADENTON, Fla. --- Break out the champagne---and not that cheap stuff either. Manatee County's gated luxury community developers and high-minded elected officials can now rightfully boast they are even more exclusive than Sarasota County next door. Manatee has suffered from severe value-envy ove...
05/07/2007
BOCA RATON, Fla. --- The City of Boca Raton has debated the merits of inclusionary zoning for three years now while continuing its exclusionary ways.M.J. "Mike" Arts, left, has led the reform effort.Hardly a wild-eyed revolutionary, Arts launched his affordable housing campaign as president of th...
05/03/2007
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 develope...
05/01/2007
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. --- When hundreds of local residents from 18 church congregations organized by People Engaged in Active Community Efforts (PEACE) rallied for affordable housing at the Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church in suburban West Palm Beach, one Palm Beach co. commisher took a hike an...
03/26/2007
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Florida Workforce Housing Network is a group 'blog' that focuses on news about affordable housing in Florida.