From Florida Workforce Housing Network, with permission:

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In the 'blogosphere'---which is like the mainstream media only most of us don't get paid or edited---it's common to toot your own horn. Actually, it's kind of a rule. The 'transparency' thing. The cross-linking thing. The no one else wants to do it thing.

Well, Toot! Toot!

The October issue of Florida Trend Magazine  quotes Steve Webster---blogger extraordinaire and the Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey of this site---in an article (actually a column) about affordable housing in Florida.  Webster confessed his participation in the story to the rest of us and muttered the usual stuff about being misquoted out of context, blah blah blah.

In Workforce Housing: Back to Basics - A slow market is turning builders to workforce housing, journalist Richard Westlund offers a quick recap of the affordable housing narrative in Fla. with a twist of the nib:

In the past year, though, housing prices have been declining, and some of the state's biggest builders, including Lennar, KB Home, and D.R. Horton, have launched affordable housing strategies. "As Florida mortgage foreclosures soar, opportunities for lower-cost housing are imminent," Webster says. "Will that be enough to solve the problem? I doubt it."

In Broward, for instance, the median household income of $58,400 is enough to qualify for a $200,000 mortgage, but the median single-family home price in June was $382,000.

Webster claims he said eminent---you know, sounds like 'standing above others in quality or position.'

Something else that's eminent---Florida Trend's October cover story, Carolina Connection:

Floridians are buying up homes in North Carolina -- and Florida builders are hot on their heels. But the Sunshine State's brand of development is creating tension in the hills.