Florida

The Florida Housing Finance Corporation released a draft Coronavirus Relief Fund – Rental Assistance Application and three CRF Subsidy Request Report – Recap of Tenant Income Certification Templates. Comments on the draft application should be sent to CRFRental@floridahousing.org and comments on the templates should be sent to IssuesCRFTemplate@floridahousing.org by September 10, 2020.

Blue Sky Communities will host a virtual groundbreaking ceremony for SkyWay Lofts on September 16 and 10 a.m. ET.

The Florida Housing Finance Corporation will hold the following public hearings on its draft Consolidated Plan: September 15, 2020; 10:00 – 11:00 am ET – meeting focus will be housing and homelessness; September 17, 2020; 2:00 – 3:00 pm ET– meeting focus will be economic and community development; October 20, 2020; 6:00 – 7:00 pm […]

The Florida Housing Finance Corporation Board Meeting will take place at 1:30 pm ET on September 4. To join the call dial 888-339-2688 and enter code 390 477 27.

The Florida Housing Finance Corporation posted a draft development cost pro-forma for RFA 2020-204 Housing Credit Financing for the Preservation of Existing Affordable Multifamily Housing Developments. Florida Housing also revised the draft development cost proforma’s for RFA 2020-201, RFA 2020-202 and RFA 2020-203.

The Florida Housing Finance Corporation released draft development cost pro-forma for RFA 2020-201 Housing Credit Financing for Affordable Housing Developments Located in Medium and Small Counties, RFA 2020-202 Housing Credit Financing for Affordable Housing Developments Located in Broward, Duval, Hillsborough, Orange, Palm Beach, and Pinellas Counties and RFA 2020-203 Housing Credit Financing for Affordable Housing […]

The State of Florida has been awarded funding through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES Act) Coronavirus Relief Funds (CRF) to provide rental assistance for residents in Florida Housing funded developments. The owner’s Invitation to Participate is now available, but is subject to the approval of the FHFC Board of Directors at the July 17, 2020 board meeting.

Using these funds, Florida Housing will subsidize eligible households’ rents by providing payments to owners of participating properties. Payments will not be made to individual resident households. The rental assistance will be available to help pay an eligible household’s rent for July through December 2020, as well as rent arrearages accrued during the months of April, May and June 2020. All funds must be expended by December 30, 2020.

At the Florida Housing May 29, 2020 Request for Applications (RFA) Workshop, it was announced that there will be a goal to fund five medium county applications that qualify for the Local Government Area of Opportunity Goal in RFA 2020-201, the small/medium geographic RFA. Applications from counties that qualified for the goal last year and were awarded funding in RFA 2019-113, even if the application was not funded to meet the Local Government Area of Opportunity Goal, will not be eligible for the goal.

At a workshop on May 29, the Florida Housing Finance Agency discussed the following proposed approaches to the 2020 and 2021 request for application (RFA) cycles:

Following the May 29, 2020 Request for Applications (RFA) Workshop, the Florida Housing Finance Corporation removed the following proposed point items for the 2020/2021 RFA Cycle: Points for submission of Site Plan/Plat Approval form set forth in item 3.b. of the May 29, 2020 agenda; Points for submission of Environmental Forms set forth in item […]

A new analysis from the National Council of State Housing Agencies documents the critical components of state housing finance agency emergency rental assistance programs established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. So far, 11 states (Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island and Texas) have created emergency rental […]

Florida Housing strongly urges property owners and managers of properties funded by Florida Housing to suspend rent increases during the COVID-19 pandemic. April 2, Governor Ron DeSantis issued Executive Order 20-94, providing targeted, temporary relief from certain mortgage foreclosures and evictions for 45 days.