{"id":119849,"date":"2026-01-15T23:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/119849\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T23:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:36:08","slug":"year-in-review-updates-on-the-top-stories-from-2025-habitat-brings-affordable-hurricane-hardened-homes-to-brandon-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/119849\/","title":{"rendered":"Year In Review \u2013 Updates On The Top Stories From 2025: Habitat Brings Affordable, Hurricane-hardened Homes To Brandon In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Original Story Published In August 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n

In Hillsborough County\u2019s eastern suburbs, a new 23-home community called Windhorst Commons is quickly rising to serve families struggling to find safe, affordable housing.<\/p>\n

Habitat for Humanity of Tampa Bay Hillsborough is on target to complete the new neighborhood of hurricane-strengthened homes \u2014 concrete block construction with storm-resistant shutters and roofs \u2014 by the end of 2026. All 11 homes currently in phase one are expected to be finished by June.<\/p>\n

In December 2025, Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins toured the subdivision at 205 W. Windhorst Rd. in Brandon and visited the future home of U.S. Army veteran Brian Nakamura to highlight the urgent need for affordable and resilient housing across the state for working families and veterans.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a veteran, I understand how critical stable housing is to a family\u2019s success,\u201d said Collins. \u201cCommunities like Windhorst Commons show what\u2019s possible when we invest in resilient construction and partners like Habitat for Humanity who honor service members and help families stay safe, housed and prepared for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Windhorst Commons will also include homes for eight families in the planned Pope Leo Village, a new multicity initiative sponsored and inspired by an anonymous donor committed to Pope Leo\u2019s vision and commitment to serve others. The goal is to inspire and activate young people and people of any faith to volunteer and financially support the work of Habitat for Humanity.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuilding high-quality, affordable housing provides an exciting opportunity for us all, with a special appeal to young adults, to put Faith into Action with the Pope Leo Village initiative,\u201d said the anonymous donor. \u201cAs Pope Leo has said, \u2018In that service to others we may find that coming together in friendship, building up community, we, too, can find true meaning in our lives.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

To make gifts go even further, the anonymous donor will match all donations up to $100,000 toward building the Pope Leo Village.<\/p>\n

Also, as its class project this year, Leadership Tampa will help design and build the Windhorst Commons Park, a neighborhood green space that will serve as a community gathering area.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want this neighborhood to address issues that so many working families struggle with \u2014 housing that\u2019s affordable and also disaster resilient,\u201d said Habitat for Humanity of Tampa Bay Hillsborough CEO Tina Forcier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Original Story Published In August 2025. In Hillsborough County\u2019s eastern suburbs, a new 23-home community called Windhorst Commons…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-119849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}