Workforce Housing Tools, Manuals and Studies

EDUCATIONAL TOOLS AND TRAINING MANUALS

Home-Buying Fair Guide -This how-to guide covers all of the basics you'll need to plan your own fair for potential home buyers

Glossary of Housing Terms – This is great section to understand all housing terms and have a knowledge base on financing calculations on LTV and principal payments

Growing Your Money: Personal Financial Tools -

Information about personal finance and credit is a serious issue for many people. The Fannie Mae Foundation collaborated with a specialist in financial education to write curriculum. The curriculum provides up to 12 hours of training, and includes the following sessions: "Developing a Spending Plan," "Working with Checking and Savings Accounts," "Understanding Credit and Your Credit Reports," and "Getting a Loan."

NeighborWorks America – National organization chartered by Congress to provide education on housing and community revitalization.  Currently has offer 250 affiliated organizations that provide homeownership education and lending assistance.

Looking for the Best Mortgage - Federal Reserve Bank - Shopping around for a home loan or mortgage will help you to get the best financing deal. A mortgage--whether it’s a home purchase, a refinancing, or a home equity loan--is a product, just like a car, so the price and terms may be negotiable.

Private Sector Partnerships: Investing in Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization. 2004. Edited by the National Housing Conference. Available at: www.nhc.org/pdf/pub_ahp_06_04.pdf

Employer Assisted Housing Resource Guide. 2002. By Jennifer Larson. Greater Minnesota Housing Fund. Available at: www.gmhf.com/Publications/eah/eah_guide.pdf.  This booklet provides a comprehensive overview of employer-assisted housing, including a survey of the various roles employers can play, options for structuring a housing benefit and examples of successful programs.

Employer Assisted Housing: An Old Concept Gaining New Momentum. 2006. By Lynn Ross. American Planning Association PAS Memo. **Please note that you must join APA and or purchase this publication.

Employer-Based Homeownership Programs: A Business Case. 2004. By Amy Brown. Fannie Mae Foundation. Available at: www.knowledgeplex.org/showdoc.htm?id=56242

 

STUDIES, PUBLICATIONS and ARTICLES

The Greater Miami Chamber's Workforce Housing Survey Results - Click Here!

What You Should Know About Attainable Workforce Housing

              Florida Chamber’s Voice of Reason column,

              http://www.flchamber.com/flccdocs/vor_0605.pdf

Where Did They Go? The Decline of Middle-Income Neighborhoods in Metropolitan America
              by Jason C. Booza, Jackie Cutsinger, and George Galster, June 2006

Palm Beach Affordable Housing Study

•      Palm Beach Affordable Housing Report

•      Palm Beach Affordable Housing Presentation

•      Municipal Profiles

•      Employer Survey

       FIU Metropolitan Center-June 2006

Housing the Workforce (power point presentation)

              Department of Community Planning and Economic Development, April 2006

              City of Minneapolis

Broward Housing Partnership Housing Needs Assessment 

• Broward County Housing Needs Assessment presentation

              FIU Metropolitan Center-March 2006

Miami Dade County Workforce Housing Ordinance Workshop (Power Point Presentation)

              Miami Dade County, March 8, 2006

Workforce Housing and Miami’s Affordable Housing Needs: Issues and Policy Options      

              FIU Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy, February 2006

 

Fla. renters breaking the `30 percent rule'
What he means is this: Though they're down this year, Florida's housing costs including rental costs have soared over the past five years. Wages haven't.

http://www.miamiherald.com/business_monday/story/360241.html

 

With Builder in Bankruptcy, Buyers Are Left Out

Ettore and Larisa Costanzo are showing off their new house, which they love madly. “Notice how we upgraded so there’s tile on all the floors,” said Mr. Costanzo, a retiree from Brooklyn. He pointed to the Kashmir granite in the kitchen. “It’s nice, no?” Now if only they could get the keys and go inside, instead of peering in the windows like a couple of Peeping Toms.  The house, on which the couple made a down payment of $88,820, is empty. Their belongings are in storage. They live, unhappily, in a hotel. “It’s very upsetting, not to be allowed in our own house,” said Ms. Costanzo, a Russian immigrant. “Please take our money and let us move in.” Their builder is Levitt & Sons, a unit of the Levitt Corporation, which ran out of cash in October and declared bankruptcy in November.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/business/03abandon.htm?_r=1&oref=slogin

Boca Raton mayor defends position on workforce housing
A nursing professor at Florida Atlantic University, who lives in Boynton Beach, prefers to ask me questions about my position on workforce housing by ...

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-pbmail883pndec30,0,3969150.story

Sluggish Housing Market Top Florida Story In 2007
Florida lost 17500 construction jobs, the first time that sector has lost workers since 1992, according to the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation. ...

http://www.local10.com/news/14950302/detail.html

ULI to host attainable housing program in Naples
The program will showcase three nationally-recognized affordable and workforce housing experts who will discuss public policy, legislative practices, ...

http://www.local10.com/news/14950302/detail.html