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 Live Local Act is incentivizing some developers to add affordable housing units with below-market rents to buildings that are already under construction or completed, instead of doing so at the ...

Neighborhoods all over Fort Lauderdale now say they have something new to worry about — high-rise towers built in the name of affordable housing, rising in places they were never meant to rise along ...

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 ...

Since the Florida state legislature passed the Live Local Act last March, most of the attention it has gotten — from lawmakers, developers and the public alike — has been about the changes to zoning ...

Senate Bill 1730 (“SB1730”) was passed by the legislature on May 1, 2025, and will become law on July 1, 2025, unless signed earlier or vetoed by the Governor. SB1730 amends critical portions of the ...

Florida developers could gain more latitude from legislative bills this year that aim to build on the state’s law to increase affordable housing. But the proposed legislation also may pose challenges ...

Attendees and officials join developer Matthew Martinez (center) during a groundbreaking ceremony for the 112-unit Beacon Hill at Princeton workforce housing development, the first in Miami-Dade ...