{"id":357869,"date":"2026-07-30T18:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357869\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:32:07","slug":"st-pete-recommends-40-85-million-in-disaster-recovery-funding-for-six-affordable-housing-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357869\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete recommends $40.85 million in disaster-recovery funding for six affordable housing projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Of the city\u2019s total allocation, $48 million was set aside for affordable rental housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The program is designed to help address the post-storm housing needs of lower-income renters and can be used for new construction or major rehabilitation of existing affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Projects had to reserve at least 51% of their apartments for households earning 80% of the Area Median Income (AMI) or less.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The city also gave preference to projects with deeper affordability, long-term affordability commitments, financing in place, access to transit and services, and housing for seniors, people with disabilities, residents experiencing homelessness and other special-needs populations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Of the 27 applications submitted through the city\u2019s Request for Applications process, six projects were selected for funding:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of the city\u2019s total allocation, $48 million was set aside for affordable rental housing. The program is designed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-357869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357869","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=357869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}