What we need to do:
- Bring Back Home Rule: Repeal the state bans that keep our own city from capping rent hikes or reining in Airbnb.
- Real Renter Protections: Guarantee a free lawyer in eviction court, ban voucher discrimination, and end junk fees and deposit games.
- Protect the Housing Trust Fund: Lock in full funding for Florida's affordable housing trust fund for good.
How we do it:
- Bring Back Home Rule: Repeal F.S. 166.043/125.0103 (the 1977 rent control ban, tightened by the 2023 Live Local Act) and F.S. 509.032(7) (the 2011 short-term rental preemption).
- Real Renter Protections: Fund a Right to Counsel pilot for eviction defense, pass a statewide source-of-income anti-discrimination law, and cap deposits and fees with interest-bearing escrow.
- Protect the Housing Trust Fund: Statutorily mandate full appropriation of the Sadowski Trust Fund (SHIP/SAIL), ending two decades of the Legislature sweeping it for other uses.