Letter: How can Gainesville keep down housing costs in a free market?

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Letter: How can Gainesville keep down housing costs in a free market?

Families in Gainesville are looking at significant rent increases as apartment complexes exit a state tax credit program that kept lease costs below market rates. The increased rent affects lower-income families the most as more than 50 percent of all renters in Gainesville are considered “cost-burdened,” according to census figures, meaning they spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing. - photo by Scott Rogers

11192017 HOUSING 4.jpg — Families in Gainesville are looking at significant rent increases as apartment complexes exit a state tax credit program that kept lease costs below market rates. The increased rent affects lower-income families the most as more than 50 percent of all renters in Gainesville are considered “cost-burdened,” according to census figures, meaning they spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing. - photo by Scott Rogers

Letter to the editor

Published: Nov 27, 2017, 5:00 AM

The Times reporter Joshua Silavent reported Nov. 20 in a front page story that Gainesville City Council members George Wangemann and Ruth Bruner would consider imposing an impact fee on new residential and commercial development to fund affordable housing

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Opinion: Trump officials should learn about loose lips sinking ships

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listens as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office of the White House on March 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/TNS)

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listens as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office of the White House on March 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/TNS)

Letter to the editor

Published: Mar 27, 2025, 9:00 PM

Quite a “Kerfuffle” (A better description begins with “S”) involving “inadvertently” including the editor of The Atlantic to a text chain with the president’s senior most cabinet members of his intelligence and defense agencies.

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