Coverage of Jacksonville’s housing market, development projects, and trends in homeownership, affordability, and neighborhood growth.
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ICARE is working with the city to revive an affordable housing trust fund. | Gabriella Paul, WUSF
November 4, 2025

ICARE and city pledge to revive affordable housing fund

The fund would provide incentives for developers to create more affordable housing.…

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A new fee on developers would conserve undeveloped land like this in St. Johns County. | Flickr, Justin Ellenberger
November 4, 2025

St. Johns County could charge developers a conservation fee

The impact fee, phased in over five years, would pay for acquiring sensitive conservation land.…

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See the interactive map below for current median home prices across Florida. | Chart by Megan Mallicoat, Jacksonville Today
October 31, 2025

NUMBER OF THE WEEK | Home prices tick up

Good news if you’re looking to put your house on the market (or spooky news if you’re looking to buy):…

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Nonprofit leaders and others discuss affordable housing during an event in St. Johns County. From left are Bill Lazar with the St. Johns Housing Partnership, Bob Porter with D.R. Horton, Malinda Everson with Habitat, Aliyah Meyer with the St. Johns County Chamber of Commerce and Erick Saks with Operation Lifeline. | Noah Hertz, Jacksonville Today
October 24, 2025

How can St. Johns County create more affordable housing?

Local leaders outline solutions for affordable housing at a time when it’s desperately needed.…

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Some Floridians report wanting to sell their homes due to high property taxes. Others say the local government services they fund make them worth it.
October 17, 2025

Lawmakers unveil ideas to reduce property taxes

Floridians may see these property tax proposals on the 2026 ballot.…

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JWB announced that it's distributing $20,000 to eight families to help with down payments for homes. | JWB
October 15, 2025

JWB helps renters with down payments during housing crisis

JWB helped eight families buy homes by contributing $20,000 to each of them for down payments.…

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Mayor Donna Deegan speaks at the opening of affordable homes in the Durkeeville community. She was joined by Jacksonville Housing Authority CEO Cheron Corbett, left, and City Council member Jimmy Peluso. | City of Jacksonville
October 6, 2025

Jacksonville unveils affordable homes in historic Durkeeville

The Durkeeville homes were officially opened Monday, one step toward more affordable housing.…

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September 4, 2025

Inspector general finds abuse in housing program

More than $116,000 was improperly disbursed to recipients who did not meet the program’s requirements.…

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Jacksonville City Council member Rahman Johnson served as the master of ceremonies of the cty of Jacksonville's celebration of Florida Emancipation Day on May 20, 2025. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
August 6, 2025

Duval property owners will pay more to challenge assessments

The cost to challenge a property assessment in Duval County will increase to $50 from $15.…

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Melissa Preen stands by boxes filled with her belongings as she prepares to move back to Cleveland. She says she can no longer afford to live in Country Villa Estates in Riverview, due to rising lot rent and other fees. | Octavio Jones, WUSF
July 30, 2025

Even manufactured homes are becoming unaffordable

Floridians who live in manufactured homes are often older people on fixed incomes. Now lot rents are pricing them out.…

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July 16, 2025

UNF unveils new dorm as demand for housing grows

Osprey Ridge is the university’s first major housing expansion since 2009.…

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Jacksonville Jaguars first-round draft pick Travis Hunter bought an 8,125-square-foot, two-story, five-bedroom, seven-bathroom home in Deerwood Country Club. | Jacksonville Daily Record
June 9, 2025

Travis Hunter buys $3.275M home in Deerwood Country Club

The Jacksonville Jaguars first-round draft pick Travis Hunter joins several team veterans buying a home in the city’s first gated…

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Rendering of Sulzbacher Enterprise Village to be completed by the end of 2026. | Sulzbacher
June 5, 2025

Sulzbacher secures funds to build homeless ‘workforce housing’ for men

Jacksonville-based homelessness services nonprofit Sulzbacher has secured the financing to start construction on phase I of its $37 million Enterprise…

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May 30, 2025

NUMBER OF THE WEEK | House prices trend downward

Our Number of the Week is the median price for a home in the Jacksonville metro area: about $392,000.…

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City Councilman Jimmy Peluso wants the mayor to establish a landlord registry. | News4Jax
April 21, 2025

Landlord registry proposed to strengthen rental oversight

City Councilman Jimmy Peluso will introduce a resolution Tuesday calling on the mayor to establish a landlord registry.…

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Some people who use the Jacksonville-Baldwin Rail Trail are concerned about plans for a nearby housing development.
March 18, 2025

#AskJAXTDY | Is development threatening the Baldwin Rail Trail?

Signs have appeared saying “Protect the Trail.” A Jacksonville Today reader wonders what’s going on.…

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March 11, 2025

‘Granny flats’ would be allowed everywhere under Florida housing proposal

As Florida continues to struggle with a lack of affordable housing, lawmakers are looking at “granny flats” to help address…

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Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis unveils the Florida Cancer Connect initiative at the Ackerman Cancer Center in Jacksonville on Aug. 3, 2022. | Raymon Troncoso, Jacksonville Today
February 18, 2025

UNF poll finds support for Casey DeSantis as governor

Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis had a 30% favorable rating in a new poll from the University of North Florida.…

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The Jacksonville City Council approves the preliminary property tax millage rate included my Mayor Donna Deegan's proposed $2 billion budget. | File photo
January 21, 2025

‘Missing middle’ plan would allow more multifamily housing

City Council legislation would allow housing such as duplexes and triplexes in established neighborhoods.…

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Freehold Communities' Arden development in South Florida would be an agrihood with a 5-acre farm and event barn. | Freehold Communities
September 11, 2024

‘Agrihood’ would bring 3,300 homes to St. Johns County

Boston-based Freehold Communities, the developer of Shearwater in St. Johns County, is working with St. Augustine landowners on a new…

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The row houses are planned on this 0.23-acre parcel along Stockton Street between Myra and College streets. | Jacksonville Daily Record
August 23, 2024

Residents and businesses say no to row houses in Riverside

Despite concerns about a parking “nightmare,” the city’s Planning Commission backed the project.…

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Roslyn Mixon-Phillips was appointed as interim chief executive of the Jacksonville Housing Authority on Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
August 12, 2024

Jacksonville Housing Authority picks another interim CEO

Roslyn Mixon-Phillips, a former Housing Authority commissioner, was selected as interim CEO during a search for a permanent CEO.…

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This three-bedroom, three-bathroom home in northwest St. Johns County's Shearwater community is up for grabs for $625,000. | Noah Hertz, Jacksonville Today.
May 15, 2024

$400k a ‘low budget’ in Northeast Florida housing hot spots

Families are getting priced out of high demand and higher-priced real estate hot spots in Duval County and St. Johns…

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April 22, 2024

Why some retired Floridians are returning to work

Many seniors are finding they must work to keep up with inflation, house prices, insurance rates and home maintenance costs.…