I grew up in this neighborhood
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I used to use South Manhattan to walk and then drive (heading south) to Robinson HS.
This was a middle class and lower middle class neighborhood.
The middle class owned and paid off their houses. They had several incomes. They had savings, investments, and pensions.
The lower middle class lived in relatively impoverished properties. They might have been owned or rented. The residents might have been struggling financially.
Most of them were good people but some of them had a negative outlook on life and either bad manners or a lack of them. This was my first experience with culture shock.
But affordable housing in my neighborhood?!
Housing was affordable.
The term, "affordable housing," didn't exist.
My family bought their house in this neighborhood (Interbay) for something like $38,000 in 1963. They made improvements every year. It became one the nicest houses in the neighborhood. It sold for $250,000 when my grandfather passed at 93.
This article is telling me the median price of a house in Tampa is $450,000.
This was an unpleasant surprise for me when I came home.
I wonder what the applications will require and what the rents will be for this affordable housing.