Habitat for Humanity Tampa Bay Gulfside hosted a dedication ceremony Thursday at The Grove, an affordable homeownership development on 18th Avenue South in St. Petersburg, welcoming three new families into homes they helped build through Habitat’s sweat-equity program.
The project has become a small but tangible example of affordable homeownership in a city where rising housing costs have increasingly pushed ownership out of reach for many working families.
Erica Soto and her two children were one of three new families to move into The Grove. Soto said the most difficult part of going through Habitat for Humanity’s process was her nerves…