ORLANDO, Fla. — It’s a popular lending program designed to help first-time home buyers get into a house in Florida. Since 2022, the Hometown Heroes Program has made $350 million available to help families buy homes, and each year the money went very quickly.
However, program leaders say this year there’s money just sitting on the table unused.
A housing market with high home prices, still high interest rates and climbing home insurance rates has many buyers still sitting on the sidelines…