Where did $1.3 billion for affordable housing go? Florida Legislature took it.

[TexasTowelie]

TALLAHASSEE — Miami ranks No. 1 in housing costs for people of moderate incomes. Orlando, once a haven for affordable housing, is tied with Las Vegas as the city with the greatest shortage of rentals for low-income tenants. And rent in Tampa is getting more expensive faster than anywhere else.　

Florida has an affordable housing crisis.

But you wouldn't know it from the proposed budgets emerging this week from state lawmakers.

For the 10th year in a row, the governor and Legislature are proposing to sweep money from the affordable housing trust funds into the general revenue fund to spend on other purposes. Since the start of the Great Recession, that has added up to $1.3 billion.

Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/where-did-13-billion-for-affordable-housing-go-florida-legislature-took-it/2318772

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1. GOP. Greedy Oligarchical Politicians.

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2. Cancer of the electorate

Florida has been afflicted by a widespread breakout of stupidity, long recognized as the ubiquitous "Florida man" but now this hideous disease has infected the electorate. This is the state of Rick Scott and Pam Bondi, of Ted Yoho, of Marco Rubio, of Allen West.
Idiot retirees from civil service jobs up north have joined with uneducated rednecks, enabled by a state legislature that has tipped the voting scales in favor of luntics.
The weather is fine, but the climate really sucks.

[Jake Stern]

3. Aunt and Uncle retired from tax funded Fed careers (Treasury and State)

They moved to the Villages and within a year they went full on tea party, griping about being "taxed to death". Hypocrisy so thick you can cut it with a knife