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

Starting early next year, Pasco County will offer $20 million in down payment help to prospective home buyers, part of a push to put people into the foreclosed and abandoned homes that riddle the county. ...more

October 22, 2008

Starting early next year, Pasco County will offer $20 million in down payment help to prospective home buyers – part of a push to put people back into the foreclosed and abandoned homes that riddle the county. County commissioners today effectively rewrote a proposal by the county's Community Development office for spending $19.5 million in federal housing money aimed at addressing the national housing crisis. The county will add $6 million of its own housing money to increase the federal funding's reach. The proposal original presented to commissioners would have spent $16.3 million on buying and rehabbing run-down homes to make them sellable. Another $4 million was put into helping low- and moderate-income people get mortgages. ...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