Ben Sorensen
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard 15 Sep
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They're one group that they're hard to house.
There's a shortage of landlords.
And what I've discovered, and what I'd like to continue in the Florida legislature, is landlord incentive programs to house various populations, and we'll start with veterans.
So what this is, is it would be, we're going to do the fiscal next year, but this is the policy framework to provide incentives to landlords to hold their rental units for up to 45 days.
The state would pay them the prorated rent.
The person gets discharged from the military or they've been out for 20 years.
They come and they rent, so it's held for them, paid by the state.
And then when they leave, as I say discharge, when they leave, what have you, even evicted or just leave on their own, if there's damages, the security deposit is kept.
But if there's damages up to another $2,000 with receipts, the state would pay.
So this is a way to just...
address the landlord shortage for veterans, and so it's a pilot program including, of course, Broward County, the best county around.
Another
bill that a governor that passed unanimously with the governor's signature the other week or month is a very simple idea called the callback act and we're starting with unemployment and this is going to be an agenda i continue for the next my time in the legislature just like when we call american airlines or comcast cable for a service issue we're not want to be on hold for an hour they say do you want to provide your phone number we
We opt in, we put our phone number in, we wait 30 minutes, they call us back, that's great.
The state doesn't have that, but now it does, at least for unemployment claims.
So starting very soon for unemployment, people not just in Fort Lauderdale but around the state when they're calling about an unemployment claim, they can put their phone number in, how novel, and the state will call them back.
I really want to get this expanded to Department of Children and Families for SNAP benefits, veteran benefits, etc.
So just two items there.
I wanted to just, again, follow up on what Senator Osgood and Rep.
LaMarcus said with the ADAPT program.
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