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affordable housing

Time to Debunk Stereotypes About Mobile Homes, Affordable Housing’s New Face

July 30, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

mobile homes stereotype debunking

Over 20 million Americans live in manufactured housing – more than in public housing and federally subsidized rental housing combined. Yet many people, including urban planners and affordable housing researchers, see manufactured housing parks as problems, when they may be part of the solution to housing crises.

Building More Homes Isn’t Affordable Housing For Those Who Need It Most

November 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Affordable? Not when the median price in Palm Coast is $330,000, as it was in October. (© FlaglerLive)

There is not a single state, metropolitan area or county in which a full-time minimum wage worker can afford the “fair market rent” for a two-bedroom home, as designated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Even the smallest, most basic housing units are often unaffordable to people with very low incomes.

Realtors Abandon Ballot Initiative that Would Have Ensured Funding for Affordable Housing

September 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Booming. But not affordable. (© FlaglerLive)

Realtors are halting an effort to pass a constitutional amendment to ensure funding for affordable housing, saying they will work with legislative leaders to create a program to help people such as nurses, police officers and firefighters buy homes.

Palm Coast Council Approves 240-Unit Apartment Complex Near Boston Whaler Plant on Colbert Lane

May 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A rendering of one of the Lighthouse Habor Luxury Apartments.

The developer of the Lighthouse Habor Luxury Apartments complex says the apartments will be marketed to “more affluent transitional folks” rather than workforce tenants, though Palm Coast is experiencing a shortage in workforce housing.

Despite Covid and Housing Crisis, Florida Lawmakers Approve Gutting Affordable Housing Trust Fund

April 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Lawmakers have approved a permanent, massive reduction of money earmarked for the state’s affordable housing fund. Those dollars come from documentary stamp revenues. The legislation is headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk for his signature.

Affordable Housing Under Attack: Flagler Realtors Join Opposition to Decimation of Housing Trust Fund

April 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Affordability is essential to the workforce. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Realtors are joining forces with state counterparts to oppose a proposal that would gut the amount of money the state will spend on affordable housing, by limiting Sadowski trust fund expenditures to that end to 33 percent of the fund’s total.

Single-Family Homes No Longer Sacred as States Turn to Zoning Laws to Lower Housing Costs

February 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

A single-family lot getting cleared for construction in Palm Coast this week. (© FlaglerLive)

Twenty-eight states and Washington, D.C., last year passed a variety of legislation that addresses the housing affordability problem, from tax credits for developers to rental assistance and eviction protections for residents.

How Wealthy Towns Keep People With Section 8 Housing Vouchers Out

January 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Unwelcome. (Ron Bieber)

Section 8 vouchers should give low-income people the opportunity to live outside poor communities. But discriminatory landlords, exclusionary zoning and the federal government’s hands-off approach leave recipients with few places to call home.

What You Need to Know About How Section 8 Really Works

January 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Behind the facade of Section 8 housing. (Argentum Nitricum)

The Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program is a form of government rent assistance. In 2018, upwards of 5 million people across the country lived in a household that used a voucher to help pay some or all of their rent.

Affordable Housing Push
Challenges Single-Family Zoning

August 25, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

An outdated model? (© FlaglerLive)

Cities and states facing rising rents, stagnant household incomes and a tight housing supply are beginning to rethink, restrict and in places end zoning that favors single-family homes.

The Gardens Project Off John Anderson Highway: The View From the Developers’ Perspective

June 28, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 40 Comments

SunBelt Land Management bought nearly 3,000 acres straddling John Anderson Highway some 13 months ago, for $11.5 million, where the Garden Development is planned. The project had previously been marketed by Bobby Ginn/Lubert-Adler as The Gardens at Hammock Beach.

The Gardens is an 825-acre, 3,966-unit mixed-use development proposed off John Anderson Highway by SunBelt Land Management as a successor to a Ginn proposal a decade ago. Ken Belshe, a member of the development group, describes the scope and intent of the project.

Joe Mullins Wants Cities and the County to Draft Homeless ‘Legislation,’ But He’s ‘Out on a Limb’

May 8, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Focus on Mullins: Bunnell City Commissioner John Rogers, left, with County Commissioner Joe Mullins, center, and County Administrator Jerry Camweron this morning before the beginning of the Public Safety Coordinating Council meeting. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins is pressing the county administrator to develop an ordinance regulating homeless panhandling and tent-pitching with city managers, but none of the local governments other than Bunnell have discussed such policies.

Palm Coast Issues 1st Building Permits for Apartments in Nearly 5 Years, For Palms at Town Center

April 2, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

The Palms at Town center

The Palms at Town Center is one of two apartment complexes that will total more than 300 units in what Palm Coast is touting as its new “Innovation District.” The developments are getting tax breaks.

Getting a Section 8 Voucher Is Hard. Finding a Landlord Willing to Accept It Is Even Harder.

September 8, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 51 Comments

B.R. Williams says looking for a place to live with a housing voucher is a “full-time job.” U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is launching a campaign to encourage more landlords to accept Section 8 housing vouchers. (Pew Charitable Trusts)

Most of the landlords whom researchers called said they didn’t take vouchers. Some of those who agreed to show their unit to a voucher holder stood the renter up.

240 Apartments Rising on Palm Coast’s E-Section Rim as Bunnell Approves Higher Height Limit

January 24, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

A rendering of how each of the 12 apartment buildings at Shadetree will look like.

The apartment complex will be called Shadetree at Bunnell, with rent averaging $1,300 a month, on 30 acres abutting Palm Coast’s E-Section. The Bunnell Planning Board quietly approved an exception so the buildings could be exceed the city’s height limit.

Getting Over Resistance Against Apartments in Palm Coast: Less Prejudice, A Bit More Height

November 30, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Panelists at this morning's Common Ground breakfast on development included, from left, Jason DeLorenzo, Charlie Faulkner, Memory Hopkins, Ray Tyner and Adam Mengel, a cross-section of Flagler's private and public development and regulatory sectors. (© FlaglerLive)

Housing, real estate and local government officials this morning diagnosed the sources of Flagler-Palm Coast’s affordable housing crisis and proposed a few solutions in a unique discussion at the Hilton Garden Inn.

Unruly Palm Coast Crowd Cleared Out of Hearing Backing Bunnell Apartments Near E-Section

March 27, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 48 Comments

Before the meeting, as the crowd was still swelling at last week's Bunnell zoning board hearing. (© FlaglerLive)

A proposed 250-unit apartment complex of SR100 in Bunnell but abutting the E-Section, drew out more than 100 Palm Coast residents at a zoning hearing that ended with the rom being cleared because of the crowd’s misbehavior.

Dismissing Affordable Housing Prejudices, Palm Coast Approves Brookhaven Apartments

May 21, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council Tuesday approved 4-1 the 45-acre, 117-unit Brookhaven apartments development in Town Center, which will provide housing to lower income residents and walkability to nearby areas.

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