Jacksonville City Council is taking an axe to Mayor Donna Deegan’s affordable housing agenda, slashing more than $7 million out of her proposed budget aimed at the programs, according to the city’s leading affordable housing official.
But there’s a debate over how much the city is really spending on what local voters recently described as their top issue.
Council Finance Chair Raul Arias (R-District 11) pushed back on the idea that the council isn’t doing enough to address housing affordability…