REAL ESTATE: AFFORDABILITY CRISIS IN FLORIDA

On the Florida Roundup, a podcast show hosted by Tom Hudson for WLRN, Sam Staley, director of the DeVoe Moore Center for the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy at FSU (Florida State University), discusses what Florida could do to address the issue of high housing prices. The Sunshine State has gone from an affordable real estate market to a very expensive one since the early 2000s, and especially since the 2020 pandemic. The reasons are simple: demand has exploded with the influx of newcomers and strong intra-state migration, and the state cannot...