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South Florida leaders want state dollars for apartments to ease affordable housing crisis
With no land left to build housing in South Florida, the region’s mayors and other top county officials want their Tallahassee lobbyists to push state legislators to fund more apartment buildings rather than boosting single-family homeownership.
That was the consensus at a meeting Friday of top county officials who crafted a list of priorities for the Legislature help alleviate the region’s crisis in affordable housing. The event in Hollywood was hosted by the South Florida Regional Planning Council.
