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Capital Report: 12-20-2019

Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:28:57
Publish Date: 2019-12-19 23:00:00
Description: There’s an affordable housing crisis in Florida and housing advocates believe the legislature isn’t taking it seriously. Over the past two decades more than $2 billion has been stripped from the state’s housing trust fund. As Blaise Gainey reports some lawmakers are now trying to limit the sweeps, while others are looking to continue the practice. Over coffee and breakfast, Florida Senate President Bill Galvano gave reporters a last look-ahead to the legislative session as lawmakers go to their respective homes for holiday break. Ryan Dailey was on hand to hear the outgoing chamber leader cover a laundry list of topics. Florida lawmakers are interested in addressing climate change. But they’re not setting any sort of renewable energy goals—which is something democrats have proposed in the past. Instead, the Republican-led majority is focusing on making the state more adaptable to rising sea levels, and Lynn Hatter reports, lawmakers are outlining plans to shore up the state’s
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