{"id":275559,"date":"2026-05-18T19:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275559\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:58:07","slug":"st-pete-launches-new-affordable-rental-housing-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275559\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete launches new affordable rental housing program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The City of St. Petersburg is accepting applications from qualified developers for its Affordable Rental Housing Program under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpete.org\/residents\/grants___loans\/sunrise_st._pete\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sunrise St. Pete<\/a> initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is funded by Community Development Block Grant &#8211; Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) dollars allocated to the city by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).<\/p>\n<p>The Affordable Rental Housing Program (ARHP) aims to meet post-disaster housing demands by providing funds to developers for the construction, substantial rehabilitation, or conversion of affordable rental housing units for households earning at or below 80% of the Area Median Income (AMI).<\/p>\n<p>The program will be administered through a competitive request for applications (RFA) process, with approximately $42 million in CDBG-DR funding available to award to qualified projects.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are open now and must be submitted by Friday, June 12 at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>View the program guidelines and get more information about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpete.org\/ARHP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">how to apply<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The City of St. Petersburg is accepting applications from qualified developers for its Affordable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1571,16022,274,1644,2200,115,596,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278],"class_list":["post-275559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-affordable-housing","tag-app-housing","tag-app-top-stories","tag-housing","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275559","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=275559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}