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Operation H.A.V.E.N.

TOT-P2-C06-001

Deliver affordable homes through many doors at once.

Delivery conditions

Milestones are subject to the dependencies in the canonical timeline.

Operation H.A.V.E.N. blends executive, departmental, and Council authority; major moves require Council action and are gated on a validated fiscal model, confirmed land, and financing.

The problem

Too many Tampa families work full time and still can't afford a home here — rent eats the paycheck before anything is saved. One program won't fix that. The city needs a portfolio of delivery tools that all pull in the same direction.

The plan

Targets are set mechanism by mechanism from verified accounting, with conservative, expected, and ambitious scenarios published for each tool. The city will describe what each mechanism can produce — never a single headline unit count — and no site will be counted as delivered homes until land, finance, operators, licenses, and operating obligations are validated.

How you’ll know it’s working

Stage-labeled delivery pipeline published with verified unit accounting
Pilot sites selected with due-diligence results made public
Conservative / expected / ambitious scenarios set per mechanism
Share of homes serving residents at or below area median income
Resident satisfaction with H.A.V.E.N. homes

From the Blueprint

Runs on four pillars: community land trust permanence, modular construction speed, a fast-track permitting lane, and resident stabilization.
Full name: Housing Access Via Expedited Neighborhoods — housing treated as a city service with owners, systems, and deadlines.
Community land trusts remove land cost permanently; modular methods compress construction timelines.
Financing stack: HOME/CDBG for acquisition and rehab, capital improvement funds for sitework and utilities, private debt and equity for vertical construction.
Design-for-dignity standards apply to every unit the program builds.
Progress is tracked on a public pipeline dashboard with monthly reporting.

‘Affordable’ has never meant ‘temporary’ under this administration — it means built to last, priced to stay, and governed to protect.

Sources and research conditions

S01 pp. 224-236

SOURCE-SUPPORTED

Milestones are subject to the dependencies in the canonical timeline.

Proposal FAQ

Questions, answered from the record.

What problem does Operation H.A.V.E.N. address?

What would Operation H.A.V.E.N. do?

Operation H.A.V.E.N. is the city's affordable-housing delivery portfolio: community land trust expansion, modular home delivery, adaptive reuse of existing buildings, a permitting strike team, and ADU/missing-middle reforms — run as one coordinated effort under the Housing portfolio owner. Targets are set mechanism by mechanism from verified accounting, with conservative, expected, and ambitious scenarios published for each tool. The city will describe what each mechanism can produce — never a single headline unit count — and no site will be counted as delivered homes until land, finance, operators, licenses, and operating obligations are validated.

Who would own Operation H.A.V.E.N., and what authority would it use?

Housing portfolio owner. Council Vote: Operation H.A.V.E.N. blends executive, departmental, and Council authority; major moves require Council action and are gated on a validated fiscal model, confirmed land, and financing.

How would Tampa know whether Operation H.A.V.E.N. is working?

Stage-labeled delivery pipeline published with verified unit accounting; Pilot sites selected with due-diligence results made public; Conservative / expected / ambitious scenarios set per mechanism; Share of homes serving residents at or below area median income; Resident satisfaction with H.A.V.E.N. homes

When would Operation H.A.V.E.N. move?

Days 61–100: Select H.A.V.E.N. pilot sites and CLT deal standards if due diligence supports them. Year One: Advance first H.A.V.E.N. sites into contract/permitting; do not claim unsupported delivered units. Years 2–4: Scale housing mechanisms against verified unit accounting and approved target scenarios.

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