Commissioners approved putting $5.6 million in uncommitted HOPE dollars toward one-time hurricane relief for mobile home residents.

Mount Zion AME Church is partnering with developers, the Tampa Housing Authority and Hillsborough County to build a 75-unit affordable housing complex for seniors. It's set to open in 2025.

If you’re underbanked, that means you might receive financial services, like paycheck advances or a personal loan, but it's not from a bank or credit union. It's often more expensive alternatives like payday lenders, pawn shops and check cashiers.

This year, affordable housing efforts will get only $2 million, with the remainder being reallocated towards reduced property taxes, sidewalk repairs, and other investments.

In a last minute budget change, Hillsborough County commissioners could vote to siphon affordable housing dollars toward nonhousing related projects. The final budget hearing is on Sept. 19.

Tampa leaders are leveraging two public programs to address the lack of affordable housing and heightened investor competition in the single-family housing market. Data shows that the programs have been especially effective in bridging the gap in the city’s Black homeownership rates.

Florida KidCare, a childhood insurance option for some parents who lost coverage, is failing to offset the coverage gap left by the Medicaid unwinding.

Florida missed the Aug. 15 deadline to opt into the Sun Bucks program for 2025. The state opted out of the federal program in 2024, too.

Large corporations, like Amherst and Invitation Homes, own thousands of homes across the greater Tampa Bay region. Renters say they’re unresponsive, quick to evict and only care about their bottom line.

The proposed development would provide 132 apartments on nearly five acres of district-owned land for Manatee County school district employees.

The latest report by United Way Suncoast shows a growing number of families with young children are living on the brink of poverty.

Data shows that holdings by midsize investors, people who own fewer than 100 homes, aren’t growing as fast as other investor groups in the Tampa Bay region.