On Wednesday, President Barack Obama went to Arizona and announced another huge spending package by our federal government. This one is to assist home mortgage defaults and it is to the tune of $75 billion. ...more

February 20, 2009

A $3.9 million federal grant was awarded Thursday to provide housing and social services for Hillsborough County's estimated 9,500 homeless people. ...more

February 20, 2009

The city received more than $5.2 million in 2008 from the federal government for community development block grants, money made available to local nonprofit organizations for building more affordable housing and creating employment programs. ...more

February 18, 2009

They're basic skills: Taking care of family, managing money and using a computer. ...more

February 4, 2009

The Calibre Investment Group, LLC, will seek a 60-day extension on its inspection period on its project to develop the site of the vacant Harder Hall Hotel, when the Sebring City Council convenes on Tuesday. ...more

February 2, 2009

The city plans to pump an additional $1.5 million in federal and state grants into a program to buy foreclosed and abandoned homes in neighborhoods hardest hit by the mortgage crisis. ...more

January 30, 2009

The default rate for mortgages recently insured by the Federal Housing Administration has been climbing, an alarming trend for an agency that is playing a vastly expanded role in the mortgage market and backing roughly a quarter of all the loans made last year. ...more

January 26, 2009

Democratic Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand emerged as a leading contender Thursday night as New York Gov. David Paterson closed in on a decision to fill the state's vacant Senate seat, according to party officials monitoring events in the wake of Caroline Kennedy's abrupt withdrawal from consideration. ...more

January 23, 2009

Tampa has gotten the federal OK to spend $13.6 million to buy foreclosed and abandoned properties. ...more

January 21, 2009

Tampa has gotten the federal OK to spend $13.6 million to buy foreclosed and abandoned properties. The funding will come from the city's share of the $3.9 billion Neighborhood Stabilization Program, a response to escalating foreclosures nationwide. The stabilization program is overseen by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. ...more

January 20, 2009