The Home Matters dashboards are a companion piece to the annual report which aim to turn the report into interactive, county-level views you can use. Through these visuals we aim to support baseline fact-finding for advocacy efforts. Many of these dashboards derive data from data from the Shimberg Center.
Explore cost burden, wages vs. housing costs, rents and availability, assisted housing, evictions, and construction trends—all in one place. Filter to your community, compare counties, and export data to inform policy, funding, and program design.
The goal is to make key metrics easy to explore and act on so local leaders, advocates, and residents can advocate solutions that deliver more safe, affordable homes.
Florida’s communities have rental units, both subsidized and unsubsidized, that are affordable to low-income households. However, there are not enough of these units to meet demand, especially in higher-priced metro areas, and higher-income households occupy some of these rentals. Low-income renters find themselves in a game of musical chairs for a limited number of affordable units.
“At 30% AMI, no MSA has enough affordable homes for their population of households making that income, forcing people into cost burden.”
The most powerful form of subsidy retention is the community land trust model. A community land trust (CLT) refers to the legal vehicle of separating land from building (house) for the purpose of transferring title to dwelling units without selling the land underneath. It also denotes the private non-profit corporation that acquires and holds title to the land and manages the ground leases on that property for the benefit of that community.
This report demonstrates the need to create more affordable housing units in Florida due to the hundreds of thousands of Floridians who struggle with increasing housing costs. Today, nearly 80% of people in the extremely low-income group are severely cost-burdened, and there are only 25 affordable and available homes per 100 renter households in this income bracket.
There are no short-term solutions that will completely resolve the lack of affordable housing in the state with the third-largest homeless population in the country. However, each year the Legislature has a mechanism already in place at the state level to significantly address this issue. This mechanism, the Sadowski State and Local Government Housing Trust Funds, provides funding to address the need for affordable housing for low- and moderate-income families while also leveraging private and public funds to bolster Florida’s economy.
