Affordable-housing plan getting cold shoulder
Saturday, June 25th, 2005CHARLOTTE COUNTY — In Charlotte County’s hot housing market, $20,000 is apparently small potatoes.
It’s the figure that county government is offering property owners to fix up their hurricane-damaged homes in an effort to spur affordable housing.
The county’s pilot program has several catches: Homeowners must spend $40,000 of their own money to get the houses back […]