Affordable housing bill teed up in Florida senate - Jacksonville Business Journal

A $711 million proposal intended to make housing more affordable for working Floridians is ready to quickly go before the state Senate after the legislative session starts March 7.

Called the “Live Local Act,” the bill includes providing incentives for private investment in affordable housing. It also would encourage mixed-use development in struggling commercial areas, preempt local-government rules on density and building heights in certain circumstances and bar local rent controls.

Passidomo’s office said the full Senate is expected to take up the measure during the first week of the legislative session.Former Democratic state Sen. Dwight Bullard also contended the measure could ease restrictions and allow development near Superfund sites “without the environmental oversight that is necessary to make sure that those particular sites do not have carcinogens or are harmful to the potential tenants.

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