person working a full-time, minimum wage job has to work 73 hours per week to afford a one-bedroom apartment; a single parent who needs a two-bedroom apartment would have to work 88 hours per week. Read more:
Shannon Nazworth believes Central Florida government officials are on the right track when it comes to their latest efforts to add affordable housing to the region, which currently is ranked as the worst for that in the nation, according to Washington D.C.-based National Low Income Housing Coalition. Read More
Excerpt from Spectrum MyNews13 By Eric Mock PUBLISHED 10:55 AM EDT Jun. 11, 2019 ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — In the midst of an affordable housing crisis, Orange County leaders are celebrating the renovation and expansion of affordable apartments. The Wayne Densch Center is being renovated Ability Housing given grant to come from Jacksonville Private,
From the Orlando Business Journal: The affordable housing issue came into focus for local banker Sandy Hostetter in early 2018, after the completion of a new development west of downtown. Lift Orlando — the nonprofit started by some of the area’s most prominent business leaders to rejuvenate downtown’s struggling neighborhoods without gentrifying the existing communities
Officials offered a “sneak peek” Wednesday at a new $27.4 million lakefront apartment development on Mercy Drive — the start of a long-planned revitalization effort for the neighborhood and a cornerstone of Orlando’s ambitious affordable-housing strategy. “This is beautiful,” said Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, who toured the three-story buildings currently under construction and walked through
Ability Housing broke ground on a new affordable housing project that it says will help the issue of affordable housing in Jacksonville. Read More @ Action News Jax
A Jacksonville-based nonprofit group is hoping to help dozens of families with the lack of affordable housing in Northeast Florida. Read More @ News4Jax
A new multifamily housing development in the works will make 80 affordable apartment homes available to the homeless, disabled and low income people in Jacksonville’s Westside. Read More @ WJCT
Ability Housing, a nonprofit focused on developing affordable and supportive housing, said it broke ground last week on a multifamily project that will bring 80 affordable apartment homes to Jacksonville’s Westside. Read More @The Florida Times Union
Ability Housing outlines plans of $18.68 million Village at Hyde Park project. Read More @ Jax Daily Record