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The Housing Leadership Council (HLC) is a coalition of business, civic, and community leaders working to sustain the economic viability of the area by ensuring that housing is attainable for the workforce at all income levels.
The Housing Leadership Council (HLC) is a coalition of business, civic, and community leaders working to sustain the economic viability of the area by ensuring that housing is attainable for the workforce at all income levels.
Posted on The News Blog of the NAHB, March 3, 2020 Rising home prices continue to put homeownership out of reach for many Americans. TheHill.TV reported in a recent episode that the median home price has jumped from $220,000 in 2010 to $331,000 in 2020. According to recent economic analysis by NAHB, more than half […]
by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, The Connecticut Mirror May 22, 2019, 5 a.m. EDT In southwest Connecticut, the gap between rich and poor is wider than anywhere else in the country. Invisible walls created by local zoning boards and the state government block affordable housing and, by extension, the people who need it. WESTPORT, Conn. — […]
By RICHARD FLORIDA MARCH 21, 2019 for CityLab.com American landlords derive more profit from renters in low-income neighborhoods, researchers Matthew Desmond and Nathan Wilmers find. Do the poor pay more for housing? That’s the question at the heart, and in the title, of a detailed paper published in the American Journal of Sociology on the […]
By A.G. Gancarskion March 8, 2020 for FloridaPolitics.com Legislative budget chairs said affordable housing funds will not be swept as has been the case in recent years. And then the House and Senate agreed on the biggest budget number for the fund in years. The Governor and Senate each wanted $387 million for the Sadowski […]
By: Ron Lieberman for the Tallahassee Democrat The state of Florida has problems with affordable housing for our workforce. Our lawmakers know this, and it is why the Sadowski Housing Trust Fund was created almost 30 years ago. Each year the Florida Legislature allocates funding for affordable housing, and yet each year we come up […]