Affordable housing bill is bold — and risky

Affordable housing bill is bold — and risky

A new law addressing Florida's affordable housing crisis includes multiple innovative ideas, but there's potential to backfire.

Affordable housing for whom?

Next week, City Council plans to declare an affordable housing crisis in Richmond as rents and house prices soar, leaving many with below average incomes unable to afford housing. However, neither the council nor Mayor Levar M. Stoney who has pushed the resolution to be voted on Monday, April 10, plan to mention the ways he and the governing body have quietly reduced funding to support development of housing for families with incomes of $40,000 …