Housing affordability, resiliency take center stage at conference

Tampa Bay’s housing supply faces threats both environmental and economic in nature, which is why the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council hosted a meeting May 6 in St. Petersburg that aimed to spotlight the need for more homes that are affordable but also hardened against rising sea levels and other effects of climate change.

The Resilience and Energy Assessment of Communities and Housing Conference, held at the Hilton Carillon Park Hotel, was also supported by the Florida Housing Coalition, Forward Pinellas, the Urban Land Institute Tampa Bay and the JP Morgan Chase Foundation. It came about a month after a resiliency summit at the same venue.