The Purpose of AHAC: From the Florida Housing Coalition's Guidebook...

"The Housing Element requirement, originally part of the 1985 Growth Management Act, remaining in force as part of the subsequently adopted Community Planning Act of 2011, requires that every local jurisdiction provide for housing its current and anticipated populations. In 1992, in part due to the concern of local elected officials that the housing element constituted an unfunded mandate, the legislature enacted the William E. Sadowski Affordable Housing Act (Sadowski Act).

The Sadowski Act created a dedicated revenue source for affordable housing to assist local governments in meeting their housing element requirements. The dedicated revenue source was funded by an increase in the documentary stamp tax collected on deeds."

"A requirement for regulatory reform though local housing incentive programs was part of the package that won the FHBA support of the Sadowski Act. The list of regulatory incentives that are statutorily required to be considered by the AHAC was a joint effort by the initial group of eleven statewide organizations and the bill sponsors."

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