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Danny McAuliffeNovember 14, 2017

There is a bipartisan effort in the Legislature to prevent the sweeping of the state’s affordable housing trust fund, but Gov. Rick Scott‘s newly unveiled proposed budget suggests doing the opposite. Scott released his recommended budget on Tuesday in Jacksonville, suggesting a $91.8 million sweep to Florida’s affordable housing trust. Meanwhile, in Tallahassee, Naples Republican Sen. Kathleen […]

Staff ReportsJanuary 29, 2016

The House and Senate released their fiscal 2016-17 budgets on Friday. The House proposed a $79.9 billion spending plan; while the Senate proposal is $80.9 billion. Both spending plans far surpass the $79.3 billion budget proposed by Gov. Rick Scott. The Senate proposal includes money for incentive programs; the House plan does not. The House […]

Phil AmmannJune 19, 2015

Affordable housing programs received a significant boost in Florida’s near $79 billion budget passed this afternoon, says Jaimie Ross of the Sadowski Housing Coalition. In a statement issued soon after the House approved the General Appropriations Act of 2015, Ross, who serves as organizer of the Sadowski Coalition and president of the Florida Housing Coalition, […]

Bruce RitchieMarch 11, 2015

State Sen. Alan Hays on Wednesday sternly told a Senate subcommittee audience that the Legislature had not neglected the environment in past years, and that Amendment 1 supporters may have misled Florida voters. The ballot initiative, approved by 75 percent of voters in November, provides an estimated $22.6 billion towards water and land conservation during […]

Ryan RayFebruary 2, 2015

What a tangled web we weave when we practice to achieve (even admirable) public policy goals via constitutional amendment. That sums up the current state of affairs for presumably millions of Florida voters who support both Amendment 1’s expansion of funding for water and land conservation and affordable housing programs like the Sadowski housing trust fund, says […]

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Capitol reax: The 2016-17 budget, House tax cut package

Sadowski Housing Coalition cheers record Florida budget for funding affordable housing

Alan Hays says Amendment 1 backers misled voters

Troubled waters for housing advocates, Senate environmental committee chair