Paradise just got better, said Lino Rosario Gonzalez. Delaney Heights, an elderly and disabled community in Avon Park where Gonzalez has lived for more than three years, will receive long-needed improvements as the recipient of $294,648 in federal stimulus money. The Delaney Heights housing project is part of the Avon Park Housing Authority. ...more

March 31, 2009

A boarding school for low-income children is being considered by the Tampa Housing Authority as part of the agency's ambitious, new five-year plan. ...more

November 21, 2008

A boarding school for low-income children is being considered by the Tampa Housing Authority as part of the agency's ambitious, new five-year plan. ...more

November 20, 2008

Two months after having to evict one of its own, the Tampa Housing Authority is set to have a full board again. Mayor Pam Iorio has chosen Hersey Jackson to fill the vacant resident board seat formerly held by Karen Peoples, the longtime public housing resident who sat in the chair for 10 years. ...more

November 18, 2008

This is a quote from the Tampa Tribune on Sept. 24. It came from the mouth of Karen Peoples, who has been the Tampa Housing Authority Commissioner since 1998 and she has, by this article, lived in this residence since 1984. The rent payment Ms. Peoples was responsible for was a mere $26 per month and the article states she was $58 in arrears. She stated she had nowhere to go. The article stated that the authority had been trying to work with Ms. Peoples since January. They offered to relocate her from her four-bedroom house to a one bedroom apartment at three different housing properties. She refused each offer, because it would have taken her out of her East Tampa neighborhood she calls home. ...more

September 27, 2008

Tampa Housing Authority Commissioner Karen Peoples sobbed Tuesday after an effort to fight her eviction from public housing failed. ...more

September 24, 2008

The Tampa Housing Authority on Tuesday began eviction proceedings against one of its own: longtime housing Commissioner Karen Peoples. ...more

July 16, 2008

The city council has approved the site plan for 120 affordable housing apartments along Davis Road. ...more

November 14, 2007