The number of new affordable housing qualified apartments in Tampa has grown 49% in the past five years, according to a just released report from RentCafe.
The national apartment search website found metro Tampa completed 3,711 fully affordable apartments between 2020 and 2024 out 48,522 apartments built. Of those, 25% were delivered in 2024.
(The report’s authors write that fully affordable “refers to residential buildings in which all units are income-restricted — meaning rent is set so that it does not exceed 30% of the Area Median Income.”)…