{"id":6607,"date":"2020-03-09T10:23:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=6607"},"modified":"2020-03-09T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:23:56","slug":"affordable-housing-land-bank-program-city-looking-for-builder-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2020\/03\/09\/affordable-housing-land-bank-program-city-looking-for-builder-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND BANK PROGRAM City Looking for Builder Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The City of Lakeland\u2019s Community and Economic Development Department is seeking qualified developers\/builders for the purpose of constructing new,&nbsp;affordable homes for income-qualified buyers. The Lakeland Community Redevelopment Agency and the City of Lakeland have combined surplus vacant land throughout the City&nbsp;as an incentive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-1.png?resize=229%2C226&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6608\" width=\"229\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-1.png?w=414&amp;ssl=1 414w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-1.png?resize=300%2C296&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sixty-six&nbsp;vacant lots are available for purchase with&nbsp;additional&nbsp;incentives to&nbsp;build new&nbsp;single-family homes and apartments. These incentives include reimbursing&nbsp;non-utility impact fees and home purchase assistance for&nbsp;qualified buyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To see a map of available lots, please go to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lakelandflorida.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=aac5ad7b7da6441c91bed2a336036f9e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/lakelandflorida.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=aac5ad7b7da6441c91bed2a336036f9e<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City Manager Tony Delgado said, \u201cThe purpose of this public-private partnership is to encourage the development of new affordable housing units, reduce the number of vacant and blighted properties, contribute to neighborhood stabilization and increase the tax base with new homes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lakeland Housing Office will&nbsp;begin&nbsp;accepting applications on March 23, 2020. Updates to this pilot program can be found by visiting&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakelandgov.net\/housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.lakelandgov.net\/housing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Lakeland\u2019s Community and Economic Development Department is seeking qualified developers\/builders for the purpose of constructing new,&nbsp;affordable homes for income-qualified buyers. The Lakeland Community Redevelopment Agency and the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}