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Commission hears AHAC incentive recommendations and SHIP/Hartford Winter Haven updates on homelessness
Summary
The Affordable Housing Advisory Committee recommended 10 incentive strategies (two with modifications) for the Sadowsky SHIP report; staff reviewed SHIP funding and encumbrances and Hartford Winter Haven reported a decline in child homelessness and rehousing program outcomes.
City staff and partners presented updates on affordable housing incentives, SHIP program funding, and homelessness prevention efforts.
AHAC recommendations: staff summarized the AHACAffordable Housing Incentive Strategy report, required annually under the Sadowsky Affordable Housing Act. The committee recommended 10 strategies for consideration by the governing body: eight without modification and two with recommended modifications. The modified items include (1) incentive E — allow multiple water and electric meters for single-family lots with accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and (2) incentive G — flexible lot configuration to identify affordable-housing forms (including tiny homes) as eligible for PUD zoning. Staff noted if the strategies are not transmitted to the Florida Housing Finance Corporation the city's SHIP allocations could be withheld; staff recommended accepting the report and authorizing the city manager or designee to transmit it.
SHIP funding update: staff reported rollover funding of just over $900,000 and a fiscal-year 2025–26 allocation of a little over $400,000, for a combined FY25/26 total slightly over $1.3 million. Only about $25,000 had been received to date; waiting-list funds encumbered since July 1, 2024 total nearly $1.2 million. Program income is about $24,000 and the balance available to deploy was stated as roughly $163,000; staff said they are awaiting clarity from the state on the next allocation.
Hartford Winter Haven: Brad Beatty, representing Hartford Winter Haven, reported child homelessness in Winter Haven Public Schools declined from 627 in 2022–23 to 547 in the most recent year, crediting city partnership and program funding for prevention and rehousing. He said 255 families were kept from imminent eviction since 2022 and 140 families with children were rehoused; in the most recent grant cycle 17 families were rehoused and 33 families were prevented from imminent eviction, with 52 families receiving case management and stabilization services.
