Six months after nixing the idea in a committee meeting and immediately following about two dozen protestors sleeping outside of city hall, St. Petersburg will take another look at a rent control referendum.
Thursday’s city council meeting was bursting with residents delivering passionate pleas for help mitigating the housing crisis, many of whom braved Florida’s summer heat and humidity while sleeping on the city hall lawn the night before. They were there to demand council members declare a housing emergency and allow voters to decide on rent control measures in November's election.
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