{"id":91876,"date":"2025-12-21T23:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/91876\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:11:08","slug":"orange-county-approves-3-million-for-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/91876\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County approves $3 million for affordable housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Orange County leaders gave their stamp of approval for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/habitatorlando.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Habitat for Humanity Greater Orlando and Osceola County<\/a> to expand their work.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>Orange County commissioners approved a $1.5 million agreement to acquire land for Habitat for Humanity Greater Orlando and Osceola County<br \/>\n<br \/>Habitat Orlando and Osceola staff say they can build between 25 to 35 homes with that amount<br \/>\n<br \/>An additional $1.5 million was approved for the group to replace roofs on 80 of their homes\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners approved a $1.5 million agreement to acquire land, so Habitat Orlando and Osceola staff can build between 25 to 35 single-family homes for low-to-moderate-income families. The funds come from the county\u2019s Affordable Housing Trust Fund.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s growth management officer says acquiring the land will allow them to build homes for families in areas like Holden Heights, Parramore and east Orange County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur objective is to serve as many people through affordable home ownership as possible. And to do that, we have to get so creative, and that money will allow us to continue doing that, to think outside the box, to see how many people we can serve through those funds,\u201d said Lucie Ghioto.<\/p>\n<p>Ghioto says that an increase in development has made it harder to find affordable land.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ability to keep those homes affordable to build, it\u2019s getting harder and harder, and so that\u2019s when we really rely on partnerships like Orange County to help us keep doing what we\u2019re doing,\u201d Ghioto said.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Steward moved into her home this summer, thanks to help from Habitat Orlando and Osceola.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re living paycheck to paycheck in this economy, you\u2019re one paycheck away from being in your car, so I\u2019m grateful, very grateful, very humble,\u201d said Steward.<\/p>\n<p>Group staff say they\u2019ve sold 18 homes this year, with another 16 in the process. In their last fiscal year, more than 2,300 people\u00a0participated\u00a0in one or more of its programs.<\/p>\n<p>County commissioners also approved another $1.5 million for Habitat Orlando and Osceola to replace roofs on 80 homes. It will be free for homeowners in unincorporated Orange County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Orange County leaders gave their stamp of approval for\u00a0Habitat for Humanity Greater Orlando and Osceola County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1571,21948,16022,27812,1015,115,1335,139,141,140],"class_list":{"0":"post-91876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-affordable-housing","9":"tag-app-affordable-housing","10":"tag-app-housing","11":"tag-app-latest-housing-stories","12":"tag-emma-delamo","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-orange-county","15":"tag-orlando","16":"tag-orlando-headlines","17":"tag-orlando-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}