Implementation of the State Housing Initiatives Partnership Program an “innovation component” into the SHIP program to reward communities that expend funds in a creative manner to provide affordable housing. The idea would be to separate the appropriation into a base component to be provided under the current population formula and a smaller portion to be granted through a competitive process run by Florida Housing.
program culture in which cooperative relationships exist among many communities. The Workgroup also discussed how to determine what is “innovative” – is a strategy only innovative if it hasn’t been done before? Are “tiny houses” still innovative? Shipping containers for housing? How does one differentiate and score between ideas to discern that one idea is more innovative?
Many on the Workgroup agreed that such a concept might incentivize local governments to innovate more quickly and perhaps with greater efficiency. However, most Workgroup members were more concerned about negative impacts, including elimination of the current
Ultimately, and in part because SHIP is not currently being fully funded each year by the Legislature, the Workgroup was unwilling to recommend an innovation concept.
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