In a party-line vote, the Hillsborough County Commission’s Republican majority picked asphalt over housing affordability in the upcoming county budget. On a 4-3 vote Thursday night, the commission cut the $10 million appropriation to its affordable housing trust fund by 80% and reallocated the $8 million to road paving and sidewalk repairs. The debate comes amid an affordable housing crisis in .
Hillsborough County's affordable housing trust fund is in danger of being defunded in the current budget in favor of more money for road repairs, sports complexes, and jail renovations.