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Florida study: $5 billion return on $423 million affordable housing investment

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Florida study: $5 billion return on $423 million affordable housing investment

| 2/8/2021

Florida study: $5 billion return on $423 million affordable housing investment

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ proposed $96.6 billion Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) budget recommendation fully funds affordable housing programs at $423.3 million, which a study released Tuesday maintains will generate $5 billion in economic benefits statewide. “An Economic Analysis of the Florida Housing Programs,” produced by the Regional Economic Consulting (REC) Group for the Sadowski Coalition, analyzed the economic impact of using affordable housing trust funds solely for affordable housing — a rarity in Florida until this year — and determined every $1 in housing trust funds spent on housing returns $1.40 in revenues for state and local government coffers. [Source: Center Square]

Are we trapped in another housing bubble? A rapid rise in home prices has some experts worried

In the midst of a raging COVID-19 pandemic, with millions of Americans still out of work and facing the possibility of eviction and foreclosure, the United States is experiencing a real estate boom the likes of which it hasn't seen in 15 years. Home prices are rising practically everywhere. From Augusta, Maine, to Phoenix and from Sarasota, Florida, to Aberdeen, Washington, prices are up by double digits. [Source: USA Today]

Home insurance benefits could shrink to head off the ‘spiral towards collapse’

Florida’s home insurance market is “spiraling toward collapse,” a newly released study warns. You can help it avoid that fate by starting to save money to pay a share of your next roof replacement. To reduce financial incentives for lawyers to sue them and prevent consumer rates from skyrocketing further, insurers are pushing for changes to state laws that would include no longer being required to pay the full cost to replace damaged roofs. Lawmakers are debating surprising new data that illustrates the price consumers are paying for rampant insurance litigation. [Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel]

Sizzling hot Southwest Florida real estate market faces lack of inventory

Real estate sales in most of the markets in the region outpaced the statewide trend in 2020, with the Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island market leading the way. Single-family home sales in Naples grew by 24% on a unit basis, according to MSA-level data provided by Florida Realtors. That’s more than quadruple the statewide growth rate of 6%. And those homes were not purchased cheaply, as the Naples median sale price reached nearly $500,000 (vs. $290,000 statewide), up 15% from last year. [Source: Business Observer]

For the first time in years, it’s cheaper to rent in Miami than in Fort Lauderdale

It’s cheaper to rent in Miami than in Fort Lauderdale, thanks to a glut of apartment units in the Magic City. Miami’s median rent slid by 9.1% from January 2020 to January 2021, while Fort Laudedale’s median rose by 3%, according to the latest national rent report by the rental listing company Zumper. The result: Miami’s median is at $1,600 per month for a one-bedroom unit, versus $1,690 in Fort Lauderdale. [Source: Miami Herald]

STAT OF THE WEEK
$140 million
A once-vacant oceanfront lot in Palm Beach, FL, that sold for $37 million in 2017 now boasts a brand-new home. And given the locale, it’s no surprise that the finished product is now Florida’s most expensive home. Listed for a whopping $140 million, the mansion has toppled the long reign of the $115 million Ziff family compound in nearby Manalapan, FL. [Source: SFGate]

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