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Code Enforcement Updates at City Council
MEETING RECAP City Council heard several proposed amendments to Code Enforcement ordinances on Thursday morning. I posted my thoughts on these earlier, which you can read in my original post below. Unfortunately, the livestream malfunctioned…
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Approaches to VAD property – Presentation at Tampa Bay Partnership
Thank you to the planners at the Downtown Tampa Partnership! Their planning intern, Bryan, took up the task of exploring ways Tampa and other cities around the US deal with VAD property. The playbook we…
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Advocacy covered on Bay News 9
Our work was recently featured on local news media! Shoutout to journalist Fadia Patterson for her coverage of this important issue. Sharing stories about how VAD spaces have affected your neighborhood are critical. By demonstrating…
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Whirlpools
The injustices of the past reverberate through Tampa’s Black and low-income neighborhoods. Decades of negligence to the plight of our most vulnerable citizens have concentrated vacant, abandoned, and deteriorating property in these communities. The City’s…