News Highlights

7/29/2025 The Shimberg Center is pleased to announce the release of the 2025 Rental Housing Market Study and the State of Florida's Assisted Rental Housing Report, both available on our Publications page. The Rental Market Study assesses the state's affordable housing needs across counties and among key populations including elders, persons with disabilities, farmworkers, and homeless individuals and families. The study estimates that nearly 905,000 low-income renters in Florida pay more than 40% of their income for rent, including nearly 353,000 age 55+ households. The State of Florida's Assisted Rental Housing offers an in-depth look at the state's inventory of subsidized rental housing, highlighting property and tenant characteristics, preservation needs, and the role of assisted housing in closing the affordability gap for elders and extremely low-income households.

6/20/2025 New datasets on the Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse will help communities understand budgeting from the federal government down to local households. the Federal Spending tool details housing and homelessness funding coming to Florida cities and counties through HUD’s public housing, voucher, Community Planning and Development, and Continuum of Care programs in the last year. The State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) table, available in the Parcels and Sales application, shows how local communities distribute the funds they receive from Florida's Sadowski Housing Trust Fund. The ALICE Household Survival Budget table added to the Workforce & Employment application shows sample budgets developed by United for ALICE for housing, child care, food, and other basic costs. Budgets are available by county for household profiles including single adults, families with children, and seniors age 65+. A fourth new table, Residential Parcels by Housing Type and Flood Zone, estimates the number of single family homes, multifamily properties, condos, and mobile homes by FEMA flood zone for each county. It can also be found in the Parcels and Sales application.

12/13/2024We are pleased to share the Shimberg Center’s 2024 Annual Report. The report highlights current trends in housing production, prices, and affordability and describes the Center's teaching, research, and technical assistance activities. Key findings from the housing trends section:

• Florida produced approximately 138,000 single family homes in 2023. Lee, Polk, and Pasco Counties continued to lead the state in single family production.
• The state also added 53,000 apartments in multifamily buildings, with highest production in Orange, Miami-Dade, and Broward Counties.
• Median home prices held steady around $410,000 in 2023 and the first half of 2024, similar to the previous year’s prices but well above previous peaks in the mid-2000s.
• Nearly 884,000 low-income renters pay than 40% of their income for housing, including over 346,000 age 55+ households.

For more data on housing supply and needs at the city, county, and state level, visit the Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse.

7/3/2024Large investors own a growing share of single family rental homes in the Tampa Bay region. A four-part WUSF-FM series describes the experiences of homeowners, renters, and neighborhoods with corporate-owned homes. The series highlights the work of Shimberg Center researcher Renz Torres, who teamed up with Gabriella Paul of WUSF-FM to identify major investors in the region.

6/24/2024A new set of infographics shows income, rents, and job examples for households from 50% to 120% AMI for Florida county and metro areas. View all fact sheets here or find the infographic for your area on our Publications page.

1/11/2024The Shimberg Center has released Florida Rental Market Study: Winter 2024 Update. The new data brief updates key findings from the 2022 Rental Market Study. The brief estimates that 862,442 low-income Florida households pay more than 40% of their income for rent, including 347,312 households age 55+. View the update for the most recent data on rental needs of older households, renter participation in Florida's workforce, and county-level cost burden figures.