The City of Orlando has come up with another bright idea. Let's use our tax dollars to buy workforce housing. You can read a detailed article about this in yesterday's Orlando Sentinel. The city is considering charging devleopers a linkage fee to help pay for this.
I always find it amusing that every statement or article on this subject describes the workforce as firefighters, teachers, and policemen. On top of all these professions already being government employees (which makes the government look pretty pathetic), many of these people work additional jobs on the side at great pay anyway. Teachers only work 9 months a year. Many police work side security jobs that pay great hourly rates. And all their jobs are unionized. I certainly am not out to bash these professions, but honestly they are not suffering nearly as bad as people in the private sector who don't have a guaranteed paycheck with lots of pensions and vacation pay and health insurance. Come on now!
The other thing that nobody wants to bring up is that the State of Florida is required by law to use the money from documentary stamps (paid every time a deed or mortgage gets recorded) to pay into the workforce housing fund. Instead for years, the State of Florida has raided this fund to pay for other projects, and thus allowed workforce housing to kind of go by the wayside.
It is nice to see that Orlando's Mayor Buddy Dyer just got re-elected last week at the same time the property tax reform amendment passed. Interesting.
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