Florida aims to expand affordable housing pipeline with latest Live Local revisions
By Mark Dovich
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Published: Mar 20, 2026

State legislators have approved amendments to Florida’s Live Local Act that aim to expand the categories of land that developers can build affordable housing on, as well as make financing for those projects easier.

As this year’s legislative session ended in Tallahassee last week, lawmakers passed a bill to update Live Local for the third time in as many years. The measure now goes to Gov. Ron DeSantis for his signature.

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