These don’t sound like bad ideas at least. Some of it sounds a bit wheel-spinning but things like streamlining permitting and promoting missing middle and increasing density with zoning reform can absolutely help.
It would be better if there was some more detailed thinking about things like transportation, which is often the second most expensive household expense after housing and often impacts the design and location of housing. Throwing out the existing nonsense TOD law and just letting developers build denser, taller housing with less parking around transit stations would be a big help. I don’t see why “coordinating with Jacksonville Transportation Authority to support transit-oriented community development” is a thing that would take more than two years, that should be a phone call and a lunch meeting.
Also, if they already know that there’s a 147,000 backlog on the Housing Authority’s waitlist then they should explicitly be looking to get JHA the money to fill that backlog fast. Give the authority the resources and powers to go out and either work with developers or even build the housing themselves. Heck, if they’re really smart about it they can even build mixed income housing themselves and enable cross-subsidies of the affordable housing through market rate units. Same way companies like Vestcor make money.
There should also be some thought about things to not support. We should absolutely not be in the business of creating future liabilities for ourselves. So things like building subsidized workforce apartments beyond the beltway with no transit access or permitting brand new affordable homes with septic tanks that we’ll one day need to spend tens of thousands per home removing and connecting to sewer should be out of the question.
