Florida FY 2025-26 Budget Summary: General Government (Affordable Housing, Basic Needs Programs, and Economic Development)

GENERAL GOVERNMENT

‍Current Landscape

Florida continues to fall behind other states in promoting economic security and self-sufficiency for residents struggling to make ends meet. Currently, over 3 million Floridians face hunger, including one in five children.^[i] Unfortunately, the ongoing erosion of the state’s basic needs programs leaves families who are experiencing hard times with few—if any—resources to meet their needs. To make matters worse, H.R. 1 (P.L. 119-21, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act), the federal reconciliation bill that Congress recently passed, will deepen Floridians’ inability to meet their everyday needs. For example, H.R. 1 cuts $186 billion in federal funding from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) nationwide. SNAP is Florida’s primary anti-hunger program for families earning low income, and the federal reconciliation bill imposes new restrictions on SNAP eligibility.

In addition, the state rejected federal money for 2025 Summer EBT (also called SUN Bucks) and did not appropriate any state funds via the FY 2025–26 General Appropriations Act (GAA) to pay for administration of the program in 2026. SUN Bucks, established by Congress in 2023, is an optional food assistance program for children in families with low income. The program provides each eligible child with a total of $120 (or $40 per month) in federally funded grocery assistance during the summer, when school is out, to supplement summer meal programs. To get federal funding to administer 2026 SUN Bucks, Florida is required to submit paperwork describing its plan of operations for next year to Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) by August 15, 2025.^[ii] However, given the state’s track record of rejecting federal SUN Bucks money, it is unlikely that Florida will move forward to roll out the program in 2026 without considerable pressure from affected Floridians and other stakeholders.

By law, the federal government pays 100 percent of the cost of Summer EBT benefits, as well as 50 percent of the administrative expenses of states that choose to implement the program. While there is no publicly available estimate of what 50 percent of Florida’s share of the administrative costs would be, the State of New York—which has a caseload close in size to Florida’s—estimates that its administrative costs are $13 million for the program.^[iii] SUN Bucks would have allowed Florida to feed over 2 million hungry children with roughly $259 million in federal food assistance,^[iv] and it would have provided relief to many families who struggle when their children cannot access free or discounted meals at school. In 2025, all but 12 states chose to offer SUN Bucks. Among the states that did opt to administer the program in 2025, several were southern states such as Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia.^[v]

Lawmakers also continue to delay making necessary improvements to the state’s Reemployment Assistance (RA) program, commonly referred to as Unemployment Insurance (UI). Florida is among the states that provide the fewest unemployed workers with help for one of the shortest lengths of time, and at one of the lowest benefit levels as well.

As Floridians continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, housing costs remain among the highest in the nation—despite the passage of the Live Local Act in 2023.^[vi] More than one-half of Florida renter households, who make 50 percent (or less) of Area Median Income (AMI), spend over one-half of their income on housing costs.^[vii] Among renter households who make up to 100 percent AMI, between 57 to 90 percent spend more than one-third of their income on housing. (See Table 1.)

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Over 20 percent of Florida’s new housing stock is currently at risk of destruction from flooding and over 40 percent of Florida’s developable land is in floodplains.^[i] The risk of loss of housing rises during the annual hurricane season, and increased homelessness following a natural disaster or storm is likely. Florida already does not have enough shelter beds and affordable housing units to accommodate nearly 17,000 homeless residents who do not have access to any type of emergency shelter or temporary housing. This unsheltered population has steadily increased since 2021.^[ii],[iii]Given the fact that Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster funding is no longer a guarantee, a natural disaster would not only worsen conditions for Floridians who are experiencing homelessness, but could also lead to more residents losing their homes.

Finally, while legislators had the opportunity to offer more funding to address homelessness in the state, the Governor vetoed over $1.6 million in Permanent Supportive Housing, Transitional Housing, and Housing First projects—leading to the loss of housing assistance to at least 1,082 homeless Floridians.^[iv] Additionally, a notice that was sent from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to local public housing authorities on March 6, 2025, advised that funds for Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHV),^[v] which were established under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), are running out ahead of earlier projections. Originally, these funds were projected to last through 2030. As just over 2,500 formerly homeless and at-risk households are set to lose their EHVs in the next 18 months, Florida may see a 10 percent rise in the number of homeless households.^[vi] This amount does not take into consideration the rise in homelessness the state is likely to experience after hurricane season—a common side effect that will potentially be exacerbated by the steep decline in federal aid that would normally be available through FEMA and HUD.^[vii],[viii]

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Budget

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REEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE

Florida’s Reemployment Assistance (RA) program has been broken for years, as policymakers have focused more on reducing program costs than on providing adequate benefits for unemployed workers. The state pays one of the lowest benefit levels in the country and requires applicants to wait a week before they qualify, with aid capped at $275 a week. Additionally, the program restricts the maximum amount of time that a worker can receive benefits at 23 weeks, and it also makes it harder overall for people with low income to qualify.

Since 2011, the state’s program has ranked at or near the bottom on nearly every national indicator of a robust program. In fact, Florida currently ranks the lowest in the nation for its UI recipiency rate, which looks at the proportion of jobless workers who receive benefits.^[i] This particularly disadvantages Black Floridians; while the average state unemployment rate was 3.6 percent in the first quarter of 2025, it was 5.6 percent for Black Floridians and 3 percent for white Floridians.^[ii]

Despite the RA program’s insufficiencies,^[iii] the Legislature decreased the appropriation for RA by almost $4 million.^[iv]

Although lawmakers did not include funds in the budget for implementing comprehensive RA reforms, they did direct the Department of Commerce (which administers RA), to develop a two-year plan of action for recommended enhancements or modernization efforts. This plan of action includes, but is not limited to, specifying clear deliverables and timeframes for completion of each enhancement or modernization.^[v]

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SNAP EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAM

The budget does not include increased funding to address the barriers that SNAP participants experience in the Employment and Training (E&T) program. Most SNAP recipients who do not have a disability or are not raising minor children are required to work or participate in the E&T program, which is intended to help recipients gain the skills they need to get and sustain a job. Yet, thousands of recipients lose their SNAP as a sanction when barriers such as lack of access to transportation, inadequate education, health issues, and computer illiteracy prevent them from participating in E&T.

In 2016, as many as 58 percent of SNAP recipients, or 360,000 people, who were referred to E&T in Florida lost their assistance due to nonparticipation in SNAP E&T.^[i] Today, thousands of SNAP participants continue to lose assistance every month because of work requirements associated with time limits or as an E&T sanction,^[ii] and the number is only expected to climb. This is because the 2024 Legislature expanded mandatory SNAP E&T to include older Floridians aged 50-59, which puts the SNAP assistance of thousands of more Floridians at risk every month. In January 2024, nearly an additional 32,000 older Floridians became mandatory E&T participants in Florida under this expansion.^[iii] In the third quarter of 2024, over 17,000 Floridians lost their food assistance as a sanction for perceived noncompliance with SNAP E&T.^[iv]

Moreover, H.R. 1 (P.L. 119-21) expanded work requirements in the SNAP program even further to include adults up to age 65; parents, grandparents and other caregivers of children aged 14 and older; people experiencing homelessness; former foster youth; and veterans.^[v] Under this new federal expansion, 253,000 Floridians are at risk of losing some, or all, of their food assistance due to bureaucratic work requirements that confuse and drain people with more administrative burdens.^[vi]

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HUNGER RELIEF

Floridians continue struggling to put food on the table, particularly in areas where it is difficult to buy affordable and nutritious food. In part, this is due to the climbing costs of travel to full-service grocery stores or farmers’ markets, as well as the cost of food.^[i]

To help combat hunger among Floridians, the FY 2025–26 budget includes:

$500,000 million to Feeding Florida, for a produce incentive for rural retailers;^[ii]
$1.5 million for Feeding South Florida, to deliver nutrition to seniors;^[iii]‍
$28 million to the Farmers Feeding Florida initiative;^[iv]‍
$1 million to Feeding Tampa Bay, for its Healthy Pantry Network;^[v]‍
$10.9 million in federal funds, for emergency feeding organizations;^[vi]‍
$5 million for Farm Share,^[vii] which distributes food to families in need, food entities, and community partners (this is a decrease of $1.5 million from the amount appropriated in the FY 2024–25 budget);
$600,000 for Feeding Northeast Florida’s Fresh Start Program;^[viii] and
$10 million to Florida’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to administer in conjunction with Feeding Florida, a grant program that was initiated to create and expand food banks and food pantries in underserved areas in Florida.^[ix]

Still, the Governor vetoed several appropriations that would have furthered food security, such as:^[x]

$400,000 for mitigating food insecurity for older adults in northeast Florida;
$350,000 for the North Miami Foundation for Senior Citizens Services’ Elderly Meals Program;
$300,000 for the Seniors First, Inc., Home Delivered Meal Program; and
$445,000 for Food and Nutrition for All South Florida: Advancing Health, Nutrition, Education, and Growth

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The economic development budget for FY 2025–26 equals approximately $200.9 million, which is about a $238 million decrease compared to FY 2024–25.^[i] The reduction is mainly due to the ending of State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) federal funds, which were reauthorized and expanded via the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). The SSBCI is a federal program to support small businesses and entrepreneurship in communities across the country.^[ii] In September 2022, Florida Commerce announced the approval of the state’s SSBCI application by the U.S. Department of the Treasury for $488 million in funding.^[iii] In FY 2022–23, Florida’s Legislative Budget Commission approved $142 million for the program,^[iv] followed by $170.9 million appropriated by the legislature in FY 2023–24,^[v] and another $175 million in FY 2024–25.^[vi] The drying up of federal dollars for the SSBCI and reduction in funding for economic development broadly highlights the role of the federal government in supporting state programs, as well as a new reality for state-based initiatives without federal assistance.

The state’s two primary economic development programs are Visit Florida and the Job Growth Grant Fund. Both programs have seen funding levels fluctuate over the past several years; in some years, the House or Senate even recommending eliminating funding altogether.

The Job Growth Grant Fund is allocated $50 million in the FY 2025–26 budget,^[vii] a decrease of $25 million from FY 2024–25. This program provides discretionary funds that the Governor can use toward targeting job training projects, or for public infrastructure. The value of this program has been debated since it was established in a 2017 special session and funding has fluctuated significantly from year to year. For example, in the FY 2019–20 budget, funding for this program was cut by more than half, to $40 million.^[viii] In the following year for FY 2020–21, budget funding was eliminated altogether.^[ix] Then, funding was reinstated in the FY 2021–22 budget at $50 million.^[x] Governor DeSantis had included $75 million for this program in his budget proposal—compared to just $25 million in the Senate’s budget proposal and no funding in the House’s budget proposal.

Funding for Visit Florida, the state’s tourism marketing corporation, remains leveled with FY 2024–25 at $80 million.^[xi] The state’s international trade agency, SelectFlorida, is funded at $5.9 million, an increase from $5 million in FY 2024–25.^[xii]

The budget includes a $1.5 million to $22.5 million decrease in funding for selected “economic development tools,” including the Qualified Target Industry (QTI) Business Tax Refund, the QTI Tax Refund Brownfield Redevelopment Bonus, the Brownfield Redevelopment Tax Refund, and the High-Impact Business Performance Grant.^[xiii]

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AFFORDABLE HOUSING

In total, for FY 2025–26, policymakers appropriated almost $487.4 million for affordable housing, an $85 million decrease compared to FY 2024–25.^[i] The cut applies to three areas: (1) Housing Construction and Rehabilitation; (2) Temporary Housing, Permanent Supportive Housing, and Housing First Programs; and (3) Miscellaneous Housing Assistance to Floridians.

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Florida Housing Finance Corporation

In Florida, affordable housing projects are funded through loans available from the state, along with grants and tax credits available through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Florida Housing Finance Corporation (FHFC) administers two types of loans: (1) the State Apartment Incentive Loan (SAIL) program for private-sector developers; and (2) the Statewide Housing Initiative Partnership (SHIP) program for local governments.

Both SAIL and SHIP programs are funded through a portion of Florida’s documentary stamp tax, i.e., a tax on certain documents executed, delivered, or recorded in Florida (for example, a mortgage agreement). The state allocates the money raised through the documentary stamp tax to multiple trust funds, including the William E. Sadowski Affordable Housing trust fund. In the 2025 legislative session, policymakers included a provision in the state’s tax package to eliminate a ten-year annual transfer of $150 million for affordable housing.^[ii],[iii]

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Housing Construction and Rehabilitation

The FY 2025–26 budget includes just over $305.7 million for housing construction and rehabilitation; this is a $134.2 million decrease compared to the last fiscal year.^[iv] The bulk of the construction and rehabilitation funding ($235 million in total) is for the SHIP ($163.8 million) and SAIL programs ($71.2 million), which is just over $173 million less than the funding in FY 2024–25. These cuts are a cause for concern as hurricane season looms, and the federal government intends to proceed to cut funding.

While it is not easy to determine the amount of housing units lost by choosing to allocate minimal funds, the construction and rehabilitation projects that were vetoed by the Governor total $2.5 million. The rehabilitation projects would have created at least 233 affordable units in Pinellas, Pasco, Hernando, and Miami— these projects were specifically targeting housing for seniors and low-income homeownership.^[v]

Finally, as mentioned, the Legislature’s FY 2025–26 tax package eliminated a $150 million ten-year annual contribution to the state’s affordable housing trust funds.^[vi] However, the FY 2025–26 GAA’s back-of-the-bill appropriates $150 million on a non-recurring basis, retroactively for FY 2024–25 and to be carried forward to FY 2025–26.^[vii] Nonetheless, now that policymakers removed the annual contribution from Florida law, there is no guarantee that they will continue allocating the extra $150 million in future fiscal years.

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Transitional Housing, Permanent Supportive Housing, Rapid-Re-Housing, and Housing First Programs

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Permanent Supportive Housing, Rapid Re-Housing, Temporary Housing, and the Housing First Approach

A robust and affordable housing system must consider those who are currently homeless, those who are at risk of becoming homeless, and those who cannot live independently due to a variety of disabilities and illnesses. Programs such as Permanent Supportive Housing, Transitional Housing, and Rapid Re-Housing can help when addressing these issues. Most of these programs operate under the same ideals of Housing First—an assistance approach that prioritizes providing permanent housing to people experiencing homelessness. It is based on the belief that people must meet their basic needs, like food and shelter, before they can properly or reliably address less immediate needs like obtaining employment, budgeting, or addressing issues with substance use. It also promotes choice and empowerment that can help bolster future independence.^[i]

Permanent Supportive Housing and Rapid Re-Housing are two ways to implement this approach for populations with different needs.^[ii] Transitional Housing can be used for clients entering into the Housing First system, and it can also provide shelter beds so that those who are unhoused can spend the night safe from the elements.^[iii] All of these systems must be funded if homelessness is to ever be addressed and if Florida does not wish to increase its amount of homeless individuals and households.

Permanent Supportive Housing, Transitional Housing, and Rapid Re-Housing were allocated $45.7 million in the FY 2025–26 budget and Housing First Projects were apportioned $5.3 million.^[iv],[v] While the Housing First projects were funded $3.4 million more than the FY 2024–25 allocation of $1.9 million, the total allocation for Permanent Supportive Housing, Transitional Housing, and Rapid Re-Housing was nearly half of the $94.1 million apportioned in FY 2024–25.^{[vi],[vii],[viii],[ix]}

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The 2024 Encampment Ban and Inadequate Funding for Continuums of Care

In 2024, the Florida legislature enacted an “encampment ban” that prohibits counties and municipalities from permitting homeless Floridians to sleep in public places.^[x] In addition to the prohibitive preemption, the law also allows the building of government-sanctioned camps to house a portion of the unhoused population. By law, these camps may not materially affect property values, and there is a list of regulations that counties and municipalities must follow—unless the county or municipality in question is “fiscally constrained.”^{[xi],[xii],[xiii]}

While the law itself was an unfunded mandate, the FY 2024-25 budget had an expanded, albeit inadequate, $30 million in funding for these counties and municipalities through their Continuums of Care (COCs). COCs are registered under the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and are made up of homeless services, individuals with lived experience of homelessness, government officials, and other advocacy groups with an interest in addressing homelessness. The FY 2025-26 budget only provides $5.2 million, which is in line with historical funding levels for COCs.^[xiv] Back-of-the-bill provisions also revert unused COC grant funding from FY 2024–25 back to the Department of Children and Families (DCF), in order to reutilize as Homeless Challenge Grants for FY 2025–26. However, it is unclear if there is any funding remaining.^[xv]

Additionally, the $45.7 million in total funding for Permanent Supportive Housing, Temporary Housing, Rapid Re-Housing, and Housing First solutions is just over half of the total appropriations for these programs in FY 2024–25—which is a significant cut, considering that this law essentially makes it illegal for Floridians without homes to sleep outdoors. The funding cut will have a detrimental impact on the municipalities that have already proposed Housing First projects. For example, the City of Jacksonville put forth a plan focused on Housing First that, if fully funded, would cost almost $14 million.^[xvi] Pensacola had to scrap a Housing First temporary housing solution because the longer-living temporary units would have cost between $2.19 and $3.47 million, but the city only had a little over $1 million to allocate.^[xvii] If the Legislature had appropriated the adequate funding to address the root causes of homelessness, these programs could have been fully funded and would not have had to whittle down or forgo their proposals.

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Miscellaneous Housing Assistance

The Florida legislature allocated $200,000 in homeless outreach, as well as an unspecified amount for rental assistance to be used by law enforcement officers in a few Florida counties.^[1] Prior to the Governor’s vetoes, there was also nearly $1.59 million allocated to rental assistance and eviction defense.^[2] The eviction defense was vetoed for the third fiscal year in a row, despite skyrocketing rents—the third highest in the country.^[3],[4],[5] Renters who have had an eviction filed on them—whether it be for cause or retaliatory—have an additional hurdle when applying for rental housing and undergoing tenant screening processes.

The upcoming hurricane season will also demonstrate if the nearly $130.4 allocated to mitigation efforts will be sufficient to deal with the impacts of hurricanes, especially given the new federal restrictions on FEMA aid.^[6] Since 2016, Florida has received almost $21.5 billion in federal relief related specifically to hurricanes—nearly 60 percent of which was received after September 2020.^[7] It is still unclear if the cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) and National Weather Service (NWS), which affect forecasting and weather reporting, will necessitate additional appropriations for adequate mitigation next fiscal year—all while attempting to address whatever damage occurs relating to hurricanes and flooding before then in this current fiscal year.

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Notes

^[1] Feeding America, “What Hunger Looks Like in Florida,” n.d., https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/florida

^[1] Food and Nutrition Service, U.S., Department of Agriculture, “Program Timeline school Year 2024-2025 and beyond,” n.d., https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/sebt-timeline-24-beyond.pdf

^[1] Cindy Huddleston, “5 Reasons Florida Policymakers Should Prioritize 2025 Summer EBT,” Florida Policy Institute, May 8, 2024, https://www.floridapolicy.org/posts/5-reasons-florida-policymakers-should-prioritize-2025-summer-ebt?42f82863_page=11#:~:text=4.,decreased%20consumption%20of%20sugary%20beverages

^[1] Food Research & Action Center, “The Summer EBT Program would reduce summer hunger in Florida,” December 2023, https://frac.org/wp-content/uploads/Summer-EBT-State-Fact-Sheets_FL.pdf

^[1] Food and Nutrition Services, U.S., Department of Agriculture, “SUN Bucks (Summer EBT): Summer Grocery Benefit for Kids,” updated: June 05, 2025, https://www.fns.usda.gov/summer/sunbucks

^[1] Joint Center For Housing Studies of Harvard University, The State of the Nation’s Housing, page 33, 2025, https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/reports/files/Harvard_JCHS_The_State_of_the_Nations_Housing_2025.pdf

^[1] Florida Data Clearinghouse, “Renter Households, Cost Burden by Income, 2023 Estimate (Summary),” n.d., http://flhousingdata.shimberg.ufl.edu/affordability/results?nid=1

^[1] Armen Agopian, et. al, “A Nationwide Analysis of Community-Level Floodplain Development Outcomes and Key Influences,” Earth's Future, Vol. 12, Issue 9, September 12, 2024, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024EF004585

^[1] U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, “Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance Programs Homeless Populations and Subpopulations,” 2024, https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_State_FL_2024.pdf

^[1] Florida Council on Homelessness, “Annual Report,” p. 14, 2023, https://www.myflfamilies.com/sites/default/files/2023-07/Florida%27s%20Council%20On%20Homelessness%20Annual%20Report%202023.pdf

^[1] Chapter No. 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Line Items 351A (SF 1662); 363 (SF 3504); 580 (SF 3130); 720B (HF 3501 and SF 1443); and 1230A (SF 3381).

^[1] U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, “Subject: Emergency Housing Voucher Program Renewal Funding Allocation,” National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, March 6, 2025, https://www.nahro.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/HUD-EHV-letter-3-6-2025.pdf

^[1] S. Acosta, et. al, “Unless Congress Acts, 59,000 Additional Households at Risk of Homelessness,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, June 23, 2025, https://www.cbpp.org/blog/unless-congress-acts-59000-additional-households-at-risk-of-homelessness#:~:text=Funding%20for%20the%20Emergency%20Housing%20Voucher%20%28EHV%29%20program,costs%20since%20the%20program%20was%20created%20in%202021

^[1] Florida Council on Homelessness, Annual Report, Pg. 3, 2023.

^[1] Jennifer Hawes, “States Fear Critical Funding from FEMA May Be Drying Up,” ProPublica, July 27, 2025, https://www.propublica.org/article/fema-grants-trump-emergencies

^[1] U.S. Department of Labor, “Unemployment Insurance Data, Florida,” 2024, Quarter 4, https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/data_summary/DataSum.asp

^[1] Economic Policy Institute, “State Unemployment by Race and Ethnicity: Florida,” April 2025, https://www.epi.org/indicators/state-unemployment-race-ethnicity/

^[1] Robert Bradfield, First Coast News, Interview with Ron DeSantis, “Gov. DeSantis: Unemployment system built with 'pointless roadblocks,’” First Coast News, Aug. 5, 2020, https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/gov-desantis-unemployment-system-built-with-pointless-roadblocks/77-ebaf0432-598f-47c9-b8dd-debfac57d590

^[1] Compare Chapter No. 2025-198, General Appropriations Act Laws of Florida, line items 2085--2091 with Chapter 2024-231, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line items 2314-2322

^[1] Chapter 2025-199, Act Implementing Appropriations, Laws of Florida, Section 104, https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/2502/BillText/er/HTM

^[1] Florida Legislature, Office of Program Policy Analysis & Government Accountability, “Mandatory Work Requirements for Recipients of the Food Assistance and Cash Assistance Programs,” January 8, 2018, pp. 12-13, https://bit.ly/2018OPPAGA

^[1] Florida Department of Commerce, "TANF/SNAP Quarterly Report Dashboard, SNAP E&T Quarterly Performance Report (Program Year 2024Q4),SNAP Measures: SNAP Exiters, Exit Quarter: 2024Q2,” n.d., https://www.floridajobs.org/local-workforce-development-board-resources/program-monitoring-and-reports/state-program/quarterly-reports/tanf-snap-quarterly-report-dashboard

^[1] Florida House of Representatives, “House of Representatives Staff Final Bill Analysis: CS/CS/HB 1267,” June 24, 2024, p. 23, https://static-s3.lobbytools.com/bills/2024/pdf/analysis_1267_06-24-24_final_2246.pdf

^[1] Florida Department of Commerce, ’TANF/SNAP Quarterly Report Dashboard: SNAP E&T Quarterly Performance Report: SNAP Measures: Sanctions, Exit Quarter: 2024Q2,”n.d., https://www.floridajobs.org/local-workforce-development-board-resources/program-monitoring-and-reports/state-program/quarterly-reports/tanf-snap-quarterly-report-dashboard

^[1] H.R. 1, 119th Cong. (2025-2026) https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1

^[1] Joseph Llobrera, Dottie Rosenbaum and Catlin Nchako, “Senate Agriculture Committee’s Revised Work Requirement Would Risk Taking Away Food Assistance from More Than 5 Million People: State Estimates,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, June 27, 2025, https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/senate-agriculture-committees-revised-work-requirement-would-risk-taking

^[1] Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, “Food Price Outlook-Summary Findings: Food Price Outlook, Food Price Outlook, 2025 and 2026,” July 25, 2025, https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings/

^[1] Chapter No. 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line item 341, https://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2025-198.pdf

^[1] Chapter No. 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line item 386

^[1] Chapter No. 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line item 1459C

^[1] Chapter No. 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line item 1460A

^[1] Chapter No. 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line item 1463

^[1] Compare Chapter No. 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line item 1462 with Chapter 2024-231, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line item 1626, https://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2024-231.pdf

^[1] Chapter No. 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line item 2112A.

^[1] Chapter No. 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line item 1464C.

^[1] Executive Office of the Governor, “Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Florida Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Budget, Veto Summary List, June 30, 2025, https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2025/governor-ron-desantis-signs-florida-fiscal-year-2025-2026-budget

^[1] Chapter No. 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, p. 388

^[1] U.S. Department of the Treasury, “State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI),” n.d., https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/small-business-programs/state-small-business-credit-initiative-ssbci

^[1] FloridaCommerce,” The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity Announces the Approval of Florida’s State Small Business Credit Initiative Plan,” September 9, 2022, https://floridajobs.org/news-center/DEO-Press/2022/09/09/the-florida-department-of-economic-opportunity-announces-the-approval-of-florida-s-state-small-business-credit-initiative-plan

^[1] TransparencyFlorida, “Approved Budget Amendment Request B0098 Fiscal Year 2022-23,” September 9, 2022, http://www.transparencyflorida.gov/arreports/arreport/53603

^[1] Chapter No. 2023-239, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line item 2356, https://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2023-239.pdf

^[1] Chapter No. 2024-231, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line item 2360A

^[1] Chapter No. 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line item 2130

^[1] Florida Policy Institute, “Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Budget: Summary by Issue Area,” July 2019, p. 24, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5cd5801dfdf7e5927800fb7f/5d5643cda002cc1190af2d1f_RP_FY2019-20_GAA_NEW.pdf

^[1] Florida Policy Institute, “Florida Budget (FY 2020-21): Summary by Issue Area,” July 2020, p. 29, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5cd5801dfdf7e5927800fb7f/5f9f5146d9e8acb84add57ef_Florida_Budget_FY2020_21_FINAL.pdf

^[1] Florida Policy Institute, “Florida FY 2021-22 Budget: Summary by Issue area,” July 2021, p. 44, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5cd5801dfdf7e5927800fb7f/5f9f5146d9e8acb84add57ef_Florida_Budget_FY2020_21_FINAL.pdf

^[1] Chapter No. 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line item 2128

^[1] Chapter No. 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line item 2121

^[1] Chapter No. 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line item 2120

^[1] Cicely Hodges, “Florida FY 2024-25 Budget Summary: General Government,” Florida Policy Institute, September 6, 2024, https://www.floridapolicy.org/posts/florida-fy-2024-25-budget-summary-general-government

^[1] Chapter No. 2025-208, Taxation, Laws of Florida, https://laws.flrules.org/2025/208

^[1] Esteban Leonardo Santis, “Behind the Numbers: What Floridians Should Know About the FY 2025-26 Tax Package,” Florida Policy Institute, July 11, 2025, https://www.floridapolicy.org/posts/behind-the-numbers-what-floridians-should-know-about-the-fy-2025-26-tax-package

^[1] Chapter 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, Line Items 351A (SF 2922, SF 2677, and SF 1274); 390B (SF 1942); 449 (HOPWA); 2112A (SF 2283, SF 3515, SF 3442, SF 1563, SF 1115, SF 2994, SF 1099, and SF 1239); 2114 (SAIL and other Affordable Housing Programs); 2115 (SHIP); 2116 (Hometown Heroes); and Backpages, Section 235 (Reversion of funds from last year - if a remainder exists).

^[1] Chapter 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, Line Items 390B (SF 1942); and 2112A (SF 1680 and SF 2346).

^[1] Chapter No. 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, section 235

^[1] National Alliance to End Homelessness, "Housing First," March 20, 2022, https://endhomelessness.org/resource/housing-first/

^[1] National Alliance to End Homelessness, "Housing First," Mar. 20, 2022, https://endhomelessness.org/resource/housing-first/

^[1] U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, “What is Transitional Housing,” last visited July 17, 2025, https://www.hudexchange.info/homelessness-assistance/coc-esg-virtual-binders/coc-program-components/transitional-housing/

^[1] Chapter 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, Line Items 211 (Flexible Services for Persons with Severe Mental Illness); 243B (SF 1137); 339 (Homeless Housing Assistance Grants); 341 (SF 3254, SF 1695, and SF 1186); 351A (SF 2411 and SF 2643); 354A (Residential Treatment Pilot Program); 359 (Wrap-Around Services for Pregnant Women); 363 (SF 1595, SF 2404, and SF 1972); 370A (SF 3258, SF 3035, SF 3504, SF 1698, and SF 1591); 580 (SF 2993); and 2112A (SF 1834)

^[1] Chapter 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, Line Items 341 (SF 2166); 363 (SF 1215 and SF 2783); and 2112A (SF 2532, SF 1225, and SF 2203)

^[1] Chapter 2024-231, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line items 215 (Temporary Housing Assistance for Severe Mental Illness), 244 (Room and Board for Developmentally Disabled), 249A (HF 1340 and HF 3547), 318A (HF 2229), 319 (Housing assistance for Domestic Violence Survivors), 332A (HF 2229 and HF 1023), 351 (Challenge Grants for Continuums of Care), 353 (Homeless Housing Assistance Grants), 366A (HF 1288), 374 (Community Substance Abuse Services), 377 (HF 2442 and HF 1701), and 384A (HF 1601 and HF 3311).

^[1] Chapter 2024-231, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, line items 355 (HF 1472 and HF 2703) and 602 (HF 1858 and HF 2437).

^[1] Chapter No. 2024-11, Unauthorized Public Camping and Public Sleeping, Laws of Florida, https://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2024-011.pdf

^[1] A fiscally constrained county is within a rural area of opportunity as designated by the Governor or a county wherein a millage rate increase of a mil raises no more than $5 million in revenue. See Florida Statutes, Chapter 2018, Section 67, Distribution for Fiscally Constrained Counties, 2024, https://m.flsenate.gov/Statutes/218.67

^[1] Chapter No. 2024-11, Unauthorized Public Camping and Public Sleeping, Section 1, Laws of Florida.

^[1] Chapter 218, Financial Matters Pertaining to Political Subdivisions, Laws of Florida, http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0200-0299/0218/Sections/0218.67.html

^[1] Chapter 2024-231, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, Line Item 351 (Challenge Grants for Continuums of Care).

^[1] Chapter 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, Line Item Backpages, Section 98 (reverts unspent COC Challenge Grant money back into DCF for the same purpose).

^[1] City of Jacksonville, “A New Day: Homelessness Plan to Address the Passage of State Law #1365,” p. 7, 2024, https://www.jacksonville.gov/mayor/docs/mayor-deegan-eblast/hb-1365-plan-to-address-homelessness.aspx

^[1] Jim Little, “Pensacola's Plan for Homeless Help, New Zoning Regs Will be Paid for with Federal Funds,” USA Today, July 30, 2024, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/pensacola/2024/07/30/pensacola-looks-to-fund-zoning-rewrite-and-homelessness-help-with-arpa/74586344007/

^[1] Chapter 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, Line Item 341 (SF 3124); and Backpages Section 8 (Subsection 4[h]).

^[1] Chapter 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, Line Items SF 1254 (Broward County Eviction Prevention and Rental Assistance) and SF 2979 (Martin County Housing Needs Assessment)

^[1] Chapter 2023-239, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, Line items 1354 (SF 1769 and SF 1158) and 2341A (SF 1552), https://laws.flrules.org/2023/239

^[1] Chapter 2024-231, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, Line item 2341A (HF 2681).

^[1] Bankrate, Homeowners Insurance Rates by State, July 2025, https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/homeowners-insurance/states/#home-insurance-rates-by-state

^[1] Chapter 2025-198, General Appropriations Act, Laws of Florida, Line Items 1555 (SF 2074, SF 2072, SF 2764, SF 1634, SF 1744, SF 1547, and SF 2765); 1871A (SF 2759 and SF 2519); 2139 (My Safe Florida Mitigation Inspections); 2140 (My Safe Florida Mitigation Grants); 2455 (Predisaster Mitigation); 2456 (Hurricane Loss Mitigation); 2457 (Flood Mitigation Assistance Program); and 2461 (Hurricane Shelters)

^[1] Sarah Labowitz, “Tracking U.S. Federal Disaster Spending: The Disaster Dollar Database,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, (last updated April 2025), https://carnegieendowment.org/features/disaster-dollar-database?lang=en