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Wednesday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Biden’s housing chief calls Miami the ‘epicenter of the housing crisis in this country’
The nation’s top housing official visited Miami on Tuesday and called the city the “epicenter” of a housing crisis in the United States. “I decided I was going to Miami, to the epicenter of the housing crisis in this country,” Marcia Fudge, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said during a visit to Miami-Dade County’s Liberty Square complex.
› City Council voting on incentive for Allegis to add 500 Jacksonville jobs
City Council is scheduled to vote June 28 for a grant capped at $750,000 for Allegis Group Inc. to add up to 500 jobs in Jacksonville. Allegis, a Hanover, Maryland-based workforce services company, says it will create the jobs at an average wage of $53,000 by Dec. 31, 2026. The company estimates it will make a $1.3 million capital investment into real estate improvements, IT equipment, furniture and fixtures, according to a May 20 city project summary.
› Airport, college land $5.5M in funding for aviation training school
After at least two years of trying to start an aviation maintenance school at the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport, the plan is coming to fruition. The School District of Manatee County, Manatee Technical College and the Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority, in partnership with Sarasota’s Suncoast Technical College and the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, will open the Aviation Maintenance Technician School at the airport. It's tentatively scheduled for a 2024 opening.
› Orlando Zillow surfers can now see homes in virtual 3D
This month, the real estate website Zillow rolled out a new feature for online listings in Orlando that gives viewers a clearer view of the homes they’re peeking into. When viewers take a virtual 3D tour of a home, certain listings will include a floor plan, generated by artificial intelligence, that shows where the camera is.
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