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Home Is Where Health Is: A Stable, Affordable Home Is a Prescription for Good Health
by Diane YentelAugust 14, 2019 As Children’s HealthWatch regularly demonstrates to policymakers, opinion leaders, and the public: a stable, affordable home is a prescription for good health. Unfortunately, that prescription […]
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Changes could be coming to incentivize more affordable homes in Palm Beach County
On Thursday, Palm Beach County commissioners will vote on more changes to a mandatory workforce housing program that aim to promote the construction of for-sale units. Workforce housing is set […]
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Home prices reach post-crash high, reverse months of tepid growth
By Jeff Ostrowski Posted Jun 21, 2019 at 9:43 AM Updated Jun 21, 2019 at 4:26 PM The median price of houses sold by Realtors jumped to $364,900. And the number of houses sold rose […]
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A decade in the making, residents starting to buy from affordable housing stock
By Hannah Morse Posted May 31, 2019 at 2:07 PM Updated May 31, 2019 at 2:07 PM WEST PALM BEACH — A county program began in 2006 with the goal of providing workforce housing units in new residential developments, but […]
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Florida House passes bill that could stop cities from requiring affordable housing
In late 2018, Miami commissioners for the first time passed a ordinance that requires developers in a small 30-block area north of downtown to set aside a percentage of units […]
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The state collects a tax to fund affordable housing. Once again, the Legislature is swiping millions to spend on other things
For the eleventh year in a row, state lawmakers plan to swipe millions from a state fund that’s supposed to go to solve Florida’s affordable housing crisis and instead will […]
