Highlands County Coalition for the Homeless outreach center's move out of Southside Avon Park is not by choice. ...more

November 23, 2009

Pasco County officials say they seriously underestimated the demand for federal stimulus money intended to prevent homelessness, and they are being overwhelmed with calls for help. ...more

November 1, 2009

Paradise just got better, said Lino Rosario Gonzalez. Delaney Heights, an elderly and disabled community in Avon Park where Gonzalez has lived for more than three years, will receive long-needed improvements as the recipient of $294,648 in federal stimulus money. The Delaney Heights housing project is part of the Avon Park Housing Authority. ...more

March 31, 2009

Sydel LeGrande watched the businesses along Nebraska Avenue shut down after the Tampa Housing Authority moved more than 1,300 people out of Central Park Village. ...more

March 27, 2009

Sydel LeGrande watched the businesses along Nebraska Avenue shut down after the Tampa Housing Authority moved more than 1,300 people out of Central Park Village. ...more

March 26, 2009

Tampa Housing Authority officials say the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development moved at record speed to get federal stimulus money out the door to local agencies. ...more

March 26, 2009

The Tampa Housing Authority will announce this morning how it will use $10.5 million in federal stimulus money. ...more

March 25, 2009

A man was killed and a woman was shot multiple times this morning in a shooting at a Sarasota apartment. ...more

March 7, 2009

When a man walking through Tampa Housing Authority property saw uniformed officers nearby Monday night, he ran off and tried hiding by illegally entering the home of a person he didn't know, police say. Officers later determined the man, Jonathan Lee Stealey, had an active arrest warrant for violating probation of resisting arrest with violence. ...more

March 5, 2009

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Henrietta Hughes slept only a few hours that first night, her pickup truck's seat barely reclining. For the next seven months, she and her son camped night after night in obscure parking lots alongside the same nameless faces. ...more

February 13, 2009