Tampa expands down payment assistance program to address yawning housing affordability

City raises the maximum purchase price of homes for those who qualify in effort to help homebuyers.

COURTESY: Cheryl Hodges Cummings, a DARE recipient, closed on her first home in December 2021.
COURTESY: Cheryl Hodges Cummings, a DARE recipient, closed on her first home in December 2021.
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As home prices continue to skyrocket in Tampa, the city is expanding a first-time buyers assistance program to help get more people into homes.

 

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