http://southfloridagaynews.com/Publisher-s-Editorial/op-ed-ahf-s-low-cost-housing-project-a-humane-idea.html This past summer, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation presented the greater Fort Lauderdale community with an initiative to address the low-income housing crisis in the city. Partnering with a coalition of nonprofit organizations, including the United Way, AHF announced plans to break ground on a residential campus for low-income residents in Fort Lauderdale. SFGN covered the story with a front-page …
Affordable housing in Florida: Déjà vu, all over again
As the economy has recovered, affordable housing is again an issue in many parts of Florida. Amy Martinez | 10/26/2018 As home prices rose in the years before the Great Recession, complaints about a shortage of “workforce housing” became common in many communities throughout Florida. Those complaints are back again, with a vengeance. In most fast-growing areas of Florida — particularly …
What Are the Ethics of Gentrification?
BY ALEXANDRA STAUB When large companies move into an area, politicians often proclaim how the new business will create jobs, increase tax revenues, and thus lead to economic growth. This is one reason local governments offer tax incentives to businesses willing to move in. Amazon’s decision to locate offices in Long Island City across the East River from Manhattan, and in Crystal City on …
Rent Limits Will Stabilize California’s Housing Affordability Crisis, Say Top Academics
In recent months, top universities — UC-Berkeley, UCLA, and University of Southern California — have released key research that found limiting skyrocketing rents will help stabilize California’s broken housing market. Millions of Californians are struggling to make ends meet as they face unfair, excessive rents. Each report studied the immediate need and value of allowing communities to implement rent control policies to address their …
AHF Tackles Housing Crisis
Norm Kent The Fort Lauderdale branch of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation hosted a press conference on Tuesday where they announced bold plans to address the low income housing crisis in the city. Partnering with the Healthy Housing Foundation, the agencies on Tuesday addressed the affordable housing crisis impacting Broward County. Specifically, the group announced plans to break ground on a …
Another AHF Housing Innovation Debuts on Skid Row: Micro Home by Kasita Arrives Next to Madison Hotel
On Sunday morning, July 8th, community leaders, advocates and officials gathered with Healthy Housing Foundation Powered by AHF (HHF) to celebrate the delivery and installation of a cutting-edge, affordable housing solution—a ‘Kasita’ micro home—in the parking lot of the Madison Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles (423 E. 7th Street LA, CA 90014). Kasita’s innovative, inexpensive, modular micro home—the first deployed anywhere in California—was delivered by …
Ft. Lauderdale Leaders Unite for South Florida’s Largest Low-Income and Affordable Housing Solution
The Healthy Housing Foundation Powered by AHF, in partnership with an array of community stakeholders including the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, United Way of Broward County, Urban League of Broward County, Mount Olive Development Corporation, have joined forces to collaborate on innovatively addressing the housing crisis in Ft. Lauderdale. Through the development of a residential campus with affordable housing options for …
L.A.’s Historic King Edward Hotel to Rise Again
HOMELESS HOUSING PRESS CONFERENCE, Monday, April 30th 10:30 AM ‘Healthy Housing Foundation by AHF’ to announce purchase of 150-room 1906 SRO hotel on edge of L.A.’s Skid Row for use as transitional and longer-term housing for the homeless. Hotel is third property in last six months acquired by the organization for use as transitional and longer-term housing for the homeless. …
South Florida’s rental affordability crisis worst in the nation, Harvard report finds
by Paul Owers Contact Reporter, Sun Sentinel South Florida’s affordable rent crunch isn’t just bleak. It’s the worst in the country – again. Nearly two of three renters in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties are devoting more than 30 percent of their incomes to housing costs, according to a report Friday from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard …