{"id":330607,"date":"2026-07-06T12:41:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330607\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:41:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:41:30","slug":"rehab-to-restore-hope-for-veterans-opens-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330607\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Rehab to Restore Hope for Veterans’ opens new home"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 For veterans struggling to find affordable housing, the challenge is not always as simple as finding a place to live. For some, it is finding a home in the right location, close to health care, jobs, transportation and other essential services.<\/p>\n

The University Area Community Development Corporation on Monday unveiled its newest housing units for veterans, cutting the ribbon on a restored duplex less than two miles from the James A. Haley Veterans\u2019 Hospital.<\/p>\n

The home is the latest addition<\/a>\u00a0to the Rehab to Restore Hope for Veterans program, a partnership between University Area CDC and AdventHealth that provides veterans with safe, stable housing and access to wellness support.<\/p>\n

\u201cHousing, transportation and workforce are all combined. So, if we have trouble having a job, of course it\u2019s hard to pay rent,\u201d said University Area CDC CEO Erica Moody. \u201cIn an affordable housing crisis, veterans are feeling it the most to have access to those resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

The University Area CDC already operates three apartment complexes in Tampa\u2019s University Area near the VA hospital, which include the Golden Glade, Golden Palm, and Uptown Sky complexes.<\/p>\n

The newly unveiled property at 1220 E. 142nd Ave., is the second duplex the organization has purchased, restored and made move-in ready for veterans.<\/p>\n

The project was made possible through $225,000 in funding from AdventHealth and another $100,000 from the Tampa Bay Lightning\u2019s Patch with a Purpose program.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re building new housing, and we\u2019re also looking at the existing housing stock and how we can clean up the neighborhood, preserve affordable housing and stabilize the community,\u201d Moody said.<\/p>\n

Veterans are identified and placed into the housing program<\/a>\u00a0through\u00a0a formal referral partnership between University Area CDC, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-VA Supportive Housing program and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.<\/p>\n

VA case managers refer veterans directly to the program after assessing eligibility, housing readiness and individual support needs. From there, eligible veterans enter the application and placement process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 For veterans struggling to find affordable housing, the challenge is not always as simple as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1571,1564,274,28,276,1644,115,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278,3393,835],"class_list":["post-330607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-affordable-housing","tag-angie-angers","tag-app-top-stories","tag-florida","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-housing","tag-news","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","tag-veterans","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330607","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=330607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}