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Don't let Florida become California

Increasing the supply of affordable housing takes a few common-sense steps. But local politicians are the big obstacle. They don’t have the will or courage.


  • By Matt Walsh
  • | 8:00 a.m. May 8, 2024
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Thirty-five years ago, CEOs in the Florida Council of 100 and a few of the more intelligent state elected officials and lawmakers worried that if Florida’s public policy makers were not careful, Florida would become another California. You know … 

A hell-hole of over-taxation and over-regulation to the point of killing the economy and driving people to leave.

Thankfully, that did not happen then and has not happened — yet. But the conversation is still as relevant today as it was in 1990 — perhaps even more so. In fact, one of the keynote speakers at the Florida Housing Summit last week in St. Petersburg entitled his talk: “How to Keep Florida from Turning into California (in all the wrong ways).”

 


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Matt Walsh

Matt Walsh is the CEO and founder of Observer Media Group.

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