TAMPA - Officials from Tampa and the local Catholic diocese dedicated an 80-unit apartment building today for the low income seniors who Msgr. Laurence Higgins called "forgotten people". San Lorenzo Terrace was built on 8 acres owned by the Diocese of St. Petersburg with a $6.6 million federal grant and started accepting residents in January. It is expected to be full by the end of this month. ...more

June 9, 2008

A federal investigation should determine the truth about allegations that several employees at Hillsborough's affordable housing office formed a company that could compete for office grants and tried to guide business to a firm owned by a worker's spouse. ...more

June 6, 2008

Federal investigators are looking into allegations that several current and former employees of the county's affordable housing office formed a corporation that could compete for grants administered by the office and tried to steer business to a real estate company owned by a spouse of one of the employees. ...more

May 28, 2008

Profits from government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, instead of taxpayers, would back up a home loan rescue for up to 500,000 strapped borrowers under a plan approved by a key Senate committee Tuesday to pull the nation out of a housing crisis. ...more

May 21, 2008

The county's affordable housing department is under federal investigation, but the county won't say for what. ...more

May 20, 2008

Howie Carroll, the embattled director of Hillsborough County's affordable housing office, has been demoted but will continue working for the county. ...more

May 20, 2008

The foreclosure crisis that has forced thousands of families from their homes has given something good to the nation's best-known housing charity: cheap properties for sale in communities around the country. ...more

May 20, 2008

Speaking of CSX, when House members finally gathered to discuss the transportation bill, the measure looked nothing like it had. In its place was a 171-page strike-all amendment that replaced every word. ...more

May 11, 2008

Frustrated with continuing problems in the affordable housing office, four Hillsborough county commissioners - a majority - called Wednesday for the firing of its leader. ...more

May 8, 2008

Tarpon Springs City commissioners have voted to woo developers of affordable housing projects to the city with a series of incentives. ...more

February 23, 2008