Housing Archives - Florida Policy Timeline

Today – Shaping Our Future in Housing Florida is currently facing severe crises in both the housing and homelessness spheres. Focusing ... Learn More

2024 – Sarasota Resilience and Voluntary Homebuyer Program Over a quarter of the entire nation’s population that occupy floodplains live in Florida. Floodpl... Learn More

2024 – Highways to Boulevards Focuses on Revitalization In 2024, the Highways to Boulevards movement came to Florida. This movement focuses on replacing ... Learn More

2024 – Anti-Vagrancy Law Prohibits Public Camping In March 2024, the Legislature passed HB 1365, which prohibits local governments’ authority to al... Learn More

2023 – Florida Enacts Live Local Act In 2023, the Live Local Act, or SB 102, was passed. The bill preempted the ability of local gover... Learn More

2022/2023 – State Condominium Law and Condominium Reserve Requirements After the 12-story condominium, Champlain Towers, collapsed in June 2021 and resulted in the deat... Learn More

2021 – Sadowski is Permanently Raided Under the Guise of Ending Raids In 2021, the “Documentary Stamp Tax Distributions Act,” or SB 2512, was passed. This bill not onl... Learn More

2008 – Housing Collapse and Discontinuation of Housing Development Prior to 2008 — due to risky and targeted mortgage lending practices — there was a period when ho... Learn More

2002 – Raiding of Sadowski Begins Despite creating a dedicated funding stream towards housing only a decade prior, the Legislature ... Learn More

1992 – Pottinger and Anti-vagrancy When homelessness was on the rise during the 1980s, homeless individuals living in Miami were bei... Learn More