Alan Henderson's housing plan
People Over Portfolios
Housing Tampa Can Afford
Too many Tampa families work full time and still can't afford a home here. One program won't fix that — so this plan delivers affordable homes through many doors at once, and publishes honest numbers for every single one.
Operation H.A.V.E.N.
Many doors, one direction
The delivery portfolio for affordable homes: land trusts that keep neighborhoods within reach, factory-built homes that arrive faster, empty buildings turned into homes, permits that stop taxing every project with delay — and digital tools doing quiet work underneath, because faster, predictable permitting is a housing policy all by itself.
Chapter06Building and Preserving Affordable Homes
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Every mechanism sets its targets from verified accounting — conservative, expected, and ambitious scenarios, published. No single headline unit count, and no site counted as delivered homes until land, finance, operators, licenses, and operating obligations are all validated.
Chapter09Workforce Housing Near Work
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Homes near jobs: a workforce housing trust fund and incentives to live local, work local — so the people who keep Tampa running can afford to live in it.
Questions, answered straight
What is Alan Henderson's plan for affordable housing in Tampa?
Operation H.A.V.E.N. — one delivery portfolio, many doors: community land trusts, factory-built modular homes, adaptive reuse of empty buildings, a permitting strike team, and ADU/missing-middle reform. Each mechanism publishes targets from verified accounting — conservative, expected, ambitious — and nothing counts as delivered until it's validated.
How do faster permits lower housing costs?
A builder can wait months for a permit while a project bleeds money — and those delays get baked into the price of every home. The Strike Team shepherds applications through review, published completeness guidance cuts resubmissions, and a fast-track catalog of pre-approved plans lets straightforward projects skip the line. Less calendar time, less uncertainty, cheaper homes.
What is a community land trust?
The trust holds land permanently; residents own or rent the homes on it at prices tied to local incomes. When land values climb, the neighborhood stays within reach of the families who built their lives there. The plan expands the model with two pilot sites and deal standards published before any transaction.
Can I add a granny flat or a duplex?
That's the ADU and missing-middle package: accessory dwelling units and small-scale multi-family homes, opened up where neighborhoods choose them — legally reviewed against state preemption limits so the rules last.
Will the city publish real numbers?
Yes — a stage-labeled delivery pipeline with verified unit accounting, and per-mechanism scenarios instead of one headline count. If a mechanism underdelivers, you'll see it here first.
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