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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to local housing assistance plans; 2
amending s. 420.9075, F.S.; revising the list of 3
persons with special housing needs for purposes of a 4
certain program to include persons who own mobile 5
homes placed in mobile home parks; including lot 6
rental assistance in the strategies for the provision 7
of affordable housing for which a local housing 8
assistance plan may allocate funds; requiring each 9
county and eligible municipality to include in its 10
local housing assistance plan the provision of funds 11
to certain persons for a specified purpose; requiring 12
that certain funds reserved for home ownership be used 13
to provide lot rental assistance to certain eligible 14
persons; authorizing counties and eligible 15
municipalities to use certain funds for the 16
construction, rehabilitation, or emergency repair of 17
certain mobile homes; prohibiting a county or an 18
eligible municipality from distinguishing or 19
discriminating between t ypes of housing when awarding 20
certain funds; providing an effective date. 21
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 23
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Section 1. Subsection (1) and paragraphs (a), (c), and (e) 25
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of subsection (5) of section 420.9075, Florida Statut es, are 26
amended, and paragraph (h) is added to subsection (3) of that 27
section, to read: 28
420.9075 Local housing assistance plans; partnerships. — 29
(1)(a) Each county or eligible municipality participating 30
in the State Housing Initiatives Partnership Progr am shall 31
develop and implement a local housing assistance plan created to 32
make affordable residential units available to persons of very 33
low income, low income, or moderate income and to persons who 34
have special housing needs, including, but not limited to , 35
homeless people, the elderly, migrant farmworkers, and persons 36
with disabilities, and persons who own mobile homes placed in 37
mobile home parks as defined in s. 723.003 . Counties or eligible 38
municipalities may include strategies to assist persons and 39
households having annual incomes of not more than 140 percent of 40
area median income. The plans are intended to increase the 41
availability of affordable residential units by combining local 42
resources and cost-saving measures into a local housing 43
partnership and using private and public funds to reduce the 44
cost of housing. 45
(b) Local housing assistance plans may allocate funds to: 46
1. Implement local housing assistance strategies for the 47
provision of affordable housing , including lot rental assistance 48
for persons who own mobile homes placed in mobile home parks as 49
defined in s. 723.003 . 50
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2. Supplement funds available to the corporation to 51
provide enhanced funding of state housing programs within the 52
county or the eligible municipality. 53
3. Provide the local mat ching share of federal affordable 54
housing grants or programs. 55
4. Fund emergency repairs, including, but not limited to, 56
repairs performed by existing service providers under 57
weatherization assistance programs under ss. 409.509 -409.5093. 58
5. Further the housing element of the local government 59
comprehensive plan adopted pursuant to s. 163.3184, specific to 60
affordable housing. 61
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(h) Each county and each eligible municipality shall 63
include in its local housing assistance plan the provision of 64
funds for lot rental assistance to persons who own mobile homes 65
placed in mobile home parks as defined in s. 723.003. 66
(5) The following criteria apply to awards made to 67
eligible sponsors or eligible persons for the purpose of 68
providing eligible housing: 69
(a) At least 65 percent of the funds made available in 70
each county and eligible municipality from the local housing 71
distribution must be reserved for home ownership for eligible 72
persons. For eligible persons who own mobile homes placed in 73
mobile home parks as defined in s. 723.003, such funds must be 74
used to provide lot rental assistance. 75
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(c) At least 75 percent of the funds made available in 76
each county and eligible municipality from the local housing 77
distribution must be reserved for construction, reha bilitation, 78
or emergency repair of affordable, eligible housing , including, 79
but not limited to, mobile homes placed in mobile home parks as 80
defined in s. 723.003 . 81
(e) A county or an eligible municipality may not 82
distinguish or discriminate between types of housing when 83
awarding funds from the local housing distribution under this 84
section Not more than 20 percent of the funds made available in 85
each county and eligible municipality from the local housing 86
distribution may be used for manufactured housing . 87
Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025. 88