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Florida will fully fund affordable housing, lawmakers say

| 3/9/2020

Florida will fully fund affordable housing, lawmakers say

The Sadowski Trust Fund was set up to help ease the burden of housing costs, using money collected from a doc-stamp tax on all state real-estate transactions. Each year, the fund collects hundreds of millions of dollars, money that can go a long way to help families and individuals looking for affordable housing: everyone from the homeless to first-time home-buyers. However, nearly $3 billion have diverted out of the Sadowski Fund to balance the state budget over the last several years. More from Click Orlando, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Miami Herald.

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