Goal 3: Opportunity for All
Address racial, social, economic, and geographic inequality in the provision of affordable housing in Pinellas County.
- Through coordinated, geographically-based data analysis and mapping, understand the social/environmental justice areas across the county (1-3 years):
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- Low-income population and population below poverty line
- Minority population
- Percent of population cost-burdened and severely cost burdened
- Single and multifamily home distribution
- Home costs
- Acknowledge and identify areas of gentrification/displacement in the county through the years, identify current areas of displacement, and develop strategies for how areas can be redeveloped without displacement from a racial, social, and economic context. (1-3 years)
- Consider partnering with the Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg and/or other community groups to organize a roundtable discussion to acknowledge racism as a public health deterrent and to empower the community with solutions moving forward. (1-3 years)
- Maintain a Tenant’s Bill of Rights to respond to the number of increased evictions, require advance notice of rental increases, and prohibit discrimination solely based on source of income. (Ongoing)
- Create and implement policies/tools/criteria that will discourage the displacement of residents as a result of redevelopment. (1-3 years)
- Identify and define targeted solutions and/or investments for areas of historic disinvestment. (1-3 years)
- Enable homeowners to stay in their homes by remedying code violations through available grants and funding. (1-3 years)
- Recognize that mobile/manufactured home parks are both a significant source of naturally occurring affordable housing and particularly vulnerable to displacement by redevelopment, and develop programs to prevent or mitigate displacement. (1-3 years)
