Bill Text: FL S1528 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Affordable Housing for Seniors [EPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Community Affairs [S1528 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S1528-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 1528 
 
By Senator Deutch 
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1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to affordable housing for seniors; 
3         amending s. 163.3177, F.S.; revising provisions 
4         relating to the elements of local comprehensive plans 
5         to include an element for affordable housing for 
6         seniors; providing for the disposition of real 
7         property by a local government for the development of 
8         affordable housing; providing an effective date. 
9 
10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
11 
12         Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subsection (6) of section 
13  163.3177, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
14         163.3177 Required and optional elements of comprehensive 
15  plan; studies and surveys.— 
16         (6) In addition to the requirements of subsections (1)-(5) 
17  and (12), the comprehensive plan shall include the following 
18  elements: 
19         (f)1. A housing element consisting of standards, plans, and 
20  principles to be followed in: 
21         a. The provision of housing for all current and anticipated 
22  future residents of the jurisdiction. 
23         b. The elimination of substandard dwelling conditions. 
24         c. The structural and aesthetic improvement of existing 
25  housing. 
26         d. The provision of adequate sites for future housing, 
27  including affordable workforce housing as defined in s. 
28  380.0651(3)(j), housing for low-income, very low-income, and 
29  moderate-income families, mobile homes, affordable housing for 
30  seniors, and group home facilities and foster care facilities, 
31  with supporting infrastructure and public facilities. Real 
32  property that is conveyed to a local government for affordable 
33  housing under this sub-subparagraph shall be disposed of by the 
34  local government pursuant to s. 125.379 or s. 166.0451. 
35         e. Provision for relocation housing and identification of 
36  historically significant and other housing for purposes of 
37  conservation, rehabilitation, or replacement. 
38         f. The formulation of housing implementation programs. 
39         g. The creation or preservation of affordable housing to 
40  minimize the need for additional local services and avoid the 
41  concentration of affordable housing units only in specific areas 
42  of the jurisdiction. 
43         h. Energy efficiency in the design and construction of new 
44  housing. 
45         i. Use of renewable energy resources. 
46         j. Each county in which the gap between the buying power of 
47  a family of four and the median county home sale price exceeds 
48  $170,000, as determined by the Florida Housing Finance 
49  Corporation, and which is not designated as an area of critical 
50  state concern shall adopt a plan for ensuring affordable 
51  workforce housing. At a minimum, the plan shall identify 
52  adequate sites for such housing. For purposes of this sub 
53  subparagraph, the term “workforce housing” means housing that is 
54  affordable to natural persons or families whose total household 
55  income does not exceed 140 percent of the area median income, 
56  adjusted for household size. 
57         k. As a precondition to receiving any state affordable 
58  housing funding or allocation for any project or program within 
59  the jurisdiction of a county that is subject to sub-subparagraph 
60  j., a county must, by July 1 of each year, provide certification 
61  that the county has complied with the requirements of sub 
62  subparagraph j. 
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64  The goals, objectives, and policies of the housing element must 
65  be based on the data and analysis prepared on housing needs, 
66  including the affordable housing needs assessment. State and 
67  federal housing plans prepared on behalf of the local government 
68  must be consistent with the goals, objectives, and policies of 
69  the housing element. Local governments are encouraged to use job 
70  training, job creation, and economic solutions to address a 
71  portion of their affordable housing concerns. 
72         2. To assist local governments in housing data collection 
73  and analysis and assure uniform and consistent information 
74  regarding the state’s housing needs, the state land planning 
75  agency shall conduct an affordable housing needs assessment for 
76  all local jurisdictions on a schedule that coordinates the 
77  implementation of the needs assessment with the evaluation and 
78  appraisal reports required by s. 163.3191. Each local government 
79  shall utilize the data and analysis from the needs assessment as 
80  one basis for the housing element of its local comprehensive 
81  plan. The agency shall allow a local government the option to 
82  perform its own needs assessment, if it uses the methodology 
83  established by the agency by rule. 
84         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.