Making News

Editorial: Affordable Housing is starting to feel like an oxymoron in Tampa Bay
November 30, 2019

For Tampa Bay residents making far below the area’s median income or a little above it, the housing market is not much of a market.  While almost 800,000 new renter households came to Florida from 2000 to 2017, the number of units renting for less than $1,000 a month fell in that time period. Nearly a third of Tampa Bay renters put more than 40 percent of their gross income toward rent, more than fulfilling the federal definition of “cost-burdened.”  Continue reading