News Highlights

12/19/2025We are pleased to share the Shimberg Center’s 2025 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 136,000 single family homes in 2024. If production continues at this level, Florida is on track to add 1.2 million homes in the 2020s.
• Lee, Polk, and Pasco Counties continued to lead the state in single family production.
• Multifamily construction is increasing. The state added 74,000 apartments in 2024, up from 61,000 the previous year.
• Home prices and rents have stabilized and even fallen slightly after sharp increases in the early 2020s. The statewide median home price was $401,000 in the first half of 2025. Still, housing costs remain well above pre-2020 levels.

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

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.