Former Florida Senate President Kathleen Passidomo championed the Live Local Act to address the state's workforce housing shortage. The act provides incentives like tax credits and density bonuses, ...

When a coalition of legislators passed Florida’s Live Local Act in 2023, the law was heralded as a model for addressing ...

When Florida lawmakers first approved the Live Local Act in 2023 in an effort to alleviate the affordable housing crisis, developers rushed to seize on its incentives and filed a slew of project ...

The Deco Northwood project, an eight-story apartment complex, will offer 40% of its units at lower rental costs in exchange for zoning variances. While the Live Local Act faces hurdles due to specific ...

In 2023, the Florida Legislature approved Senate Bill 102, known as the Live Local Act, and Gov. Ron DeSantis signed it into law. The next year, lawmakers revised the legislation. Further updates to ...

The Live Local Act, along with its 2025 update, provides one of the most promising legal frameworks to incentivize private development of attainable housing statewide. Yet even the strongest statutes ...

The Caltagirone brothers’ Calta Group scored approval for a 499-unit Live Local Act tower in Allapattah, marking one of the first Miami projects under the state law with both condos and apartments.

For all its imperfections and challenges, the Live Local Act has shown results in Southwest Florida. It will produce affordable housing in the region — as intended. Just how much of it, however, is ...

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The Green Mills Group's affordable housing project in Bartow, Florida, called United Commons, is awaiting approval for Low-Income Housing Tax Credits. The developer has applied for tax credits three ...