March 2013 Archives

EDITORIAL: Stop pilfering from fund for affordable housing

For the past four years, Florida lawmakers have raided money from a state trust fund for affordable housing to help close budget deficits. They can’t use that excuse in this legislative session; state economists are now projecting a budget surplus next year of more than $1 billion.
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House and Senate split on affordable housing money

Looks like House Republicans are alone in completely stripping a trust fund set aside for helping homeowners hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis.
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Jaimie Ross: No excuses for raids on housing trust funds

Halfway through the 2013 legislative session, things are looking good. No budget deficit, and a recovering economy that has generated an estimated $200 million in Sadowski state and local housing trust funds ($53.4 million for state programs such as SAIL, and $151.41 million for SHIP), as well as an attorney general settlement that has generated an additional $200 million in bank settlement funds to be appropriated for housing-related activities.
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