Affordable housing lot program faces hurdles, changes

St. Petersburg administrators are revamping the city’s Affordable Lot Disposition Program to increase attainable homeownership opportunities and eliminate construction delays that can span nearly four years.

Beatriz Zafra, special projects coordinator, explained the initiative’s unexpected challenges and proposed solutions to city council members at a Jan. 11 committee meeting. The program began in 2018 and allows officials to convert lots obtained through foreclosure into affordable, single-family homes.

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While the pandemic was raging, restauranter Michael Schwartz hit the proverbial fork in the road.

“During Covid, I was bored,” he remembered. “I didn’t really know where my career was going to go.” It was his third disruption after 9/11 and the financial meltdown of 2008-09.