The city will demolish a nearly 70-year-old abandoned house where police found a woman's badly decomposed body in March. ...more

September 19, 2008

A former Tampa Housing Authority official was sentenced this morning to four years and two months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to steal more than $400,000 in federal rent subsidies. ...more

August 29, 2008

Wanted: housing authority executive director. Must be comfortable entering uncharted territory. ...more

July 30, 2008

New hire would likely stay on. ...more

July 30, 2008

Tampa Housing Authority commissioner Karen Peoples arrived late Wednesday morning for what may have been her last board meeting. ...more

July 17, 2008

Tampa Housing Authority commissioner Karen Peoples responded angrily this morning to a Tampa Tribune report that she is being evicted for violating federal housing guidelines. "Whoever was responsible for this article, may God be with you when the time comes," Peoples said near the end of the authority's monthly board meeting. "This was not necessary." ...more

July 16, 2008

FORMER BOARD MEMBER TEAMS WITH WIFE OF CONTRACTOR WITH ACTIVE LAWSUIT ...more

June 26, 2008

TELLS HUD IT WOULD BE 'IN BEST INTEREST OF COMMUNITY' ...more

June 15, 2008

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

President Bush is considering new measures to help stimulate the battered economy, the White House said Friday as unemployment and oil prices soared and Wall Street sank. ...more

June 7, 2008