As four developers are looking to use Florida’s new Live Local Act to deliver lower-cost apartments to the Orlando area, Orange County established its playbook on how projects like these should be ...

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The Live Local Act is incentivizing some developers to add affordable housing units with below-market rents to buildings that are already under construction or completed, instead of doing so at the ...

Even its critics think Florida’s Live Local Act is working. In fact, they think it’s working too well. Local politicians are concerned that the new state law encouraging development of rent-restricted ...

Florida lawmakers recently strengthened the Live Local Act’s state control over municipalities, aiming to crack down on cities and counties that try to block applications filed under the workforce ...

Florida's 2023 "Live Local Act" was designed to increase affordable housing but is now a contentious issue in state and local elections. The law limits the ability of local governments to reject ...

Florida legislators passed the Live Local Act in 2023 with the goal of funneling millions of dollars to new affordable housing construction to combat a growing housing crisis. But pandemic-era price ...