After the Storm: How AI Is Transforming the Way Florida Processes Building Permits

Few states have a more urgent relationship with building permits than Florida. The combination of rapid population growth, aging housing stock, an acute affordability crisis, and a coastline that faces a nearly annual reckoning with hurricanes makes the permitting process not just an administrative function but a critical piece of infrastructure in its own right. When permits move slowly, housing doesn’t get built fast enough to keep pace with demand. When disaster strikes, a slow permitting process means families wait months longer to come home. The state added more than 400,000 new residents in 2023 alone, and its building departments are being asked to process more applications, more complex applications, and more post-disaster applications than at any point in recent memory. The system was not built for this volume, and the gap between what is being asked of it and what it can deliver is becoming harder to ignore.

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RSK: A good example of how ai can work in the field of real estate and permitting. From 30 days to 2 hours is quite the jump.