{"id":44680,"date":"2024-04-25T18:20:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T22:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=44680"},"modified":"2024-04-25T18:20:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T22:20:54","slug":"housing-need-at-the-center-of-polks-state-of-the-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/04\/25\/housing-need-at-the-center-of-polks-state-of-the-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing need at the center of Polk’s State of the County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Polk County is wedged between two fast-growing cities: Tampa and Orlando.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The area has seen booming growth as people look for housing as well as more affordable cost-of-living options.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And affordable housing is one of the big challenges Polk County faces in its future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The address, featuring multiple local officials, is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. at the Polk County Sheriff’s Office’s PROCAP Room in Winter Haven. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polk Commission Chair Bill Braswell, one of the speakers, said in the past year, the county has chipped away at county service issues like trash collection and emergency response times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Braswell said that happened while officials were able to lower property taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But available affordable housing is the continuing challenge, Braswell said, adding that people moving to Polk need more options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI look at things like, we call them snuggle wides, they are half of a full-size mobile home, kind of like a mini-home,\u201d Braswell said. \u201cThis mini-home thing is really popular. but we could house a lot of people and at very low rent if we could get somebody to come in here and develop out some of these properties.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And population growth is not going away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, in an estimate last year from State Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, she wrote, over the next 5 years, Florida could see 300,000 new residents per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s a net gain of around 800 people, per day, through 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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