Even with the downturn in real estate prices, more affordable housing is needed for Hillsborough County's poor and working-class families. ...more

November 7, 2008

Pasco County and federal authorities might be in a tug of war over how best to spend nearly $20 million of federal aid in a foreclosure rescue plan. ...more

November 5, 2008

Hillsborough County commissioners will take public comments Thursday on how to spend a $19.1 million federal grant to buy and redevelop foreclosed properties. ...more

November 1, 2008

Hillsborough County Commissioners will take public comments Thursday on how to spend a $19.1 million federal grant to buy and redevelop foreclosed properties. The money comes to the county through the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, part of a broader housing recovery act passed by Congress earlier this year to deal with skyrocketing numbers of foreclosures. ...more

October 31, 2008

County officials decided this week against branching into the real estate business and buying foreclosed homes. ...more

October 25, 2008

Bold measures are needed, a real estate leader told Pasco County commissioners today as a foreclosure rescue plan worth nearly $20 million took shape. ...more

October 21, 2008

With all of the purely politically motivated negative action taken on the part of Congressman Barney Frank, chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services who uttered these now famous words, "These two entities - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis," now comes another potential result of his committee's utter disregard for the advice of the Bush administration to take steps to rein in these two entities. ...more

October 21, 2008

With thousands of foreclosed houses littering its landscape, Pasco County is eligible for nearly $20 million in federal aid - the fifth-highest grant in Florida. ...more

October 18, 2008

City officials are focusing on West Tampa and Sulphur Springs as they work on a plan to combat the growing tide of abandoned homes stemming from the state's housing crisis. During the next year, Tampa is expected to receive $13.6 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's new Neighborhood Stabilization Program, a $3.92 billion emergency response to escalating foreclosures nationwide. ...more

October 17, 2008

Health and Human Services Director Jean Rags is confident Hernando County will get a chunk of the federal block grant money earmarked for housing relief, even though the county does not meet certain population parameters. ...more

October 10, 2008