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Letter: How can Gainesville keep down housing costs in a free market?
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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: Sacrifices must be made by all to keep Democracy
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President Donald Trump listens during an event Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. - photo by Associated Press
Letter to the editor
Published: Apr 3, 2025, 8:11 PM
Donald Trump and the Republican Party are, in a helter-skelter fashion, converting American democracy into an autocracy with Trump as the autocrat.
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