{"id":666094,"date":"2021-08-20T15:35:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T19:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=666094"},"modified":"2021-08-20T15:35:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T19:35:26","slug":"fact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-new-low-income-housing-development-in-tampa-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-new-low-income-housing-development-in-tampa-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Photo Show A New Low-Income Housing Development In Tampa, Florida?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-photo-show-a-new-low-income-housing-development-in-tampa-florida%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=666094&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2017-09-10T002541Z_58316377_RC16A0E58BE0_RTRMADP_3_STORM-IRMA-scaled-e1629334787518.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/northtampa.bucs\/posts\/1480225289022901\">shared on Facebook<\/a> over 400 times purportedly shows a new low-income housing project under construction in Tampa, Florida.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image shows apartments for college students in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image, which was posted on Aug. 11, shows a hallway of what appears to be apartments with indoor balconies. The caption reads, \u201cThis is the mew [<em>sic<\/em>] projects being built for low income housing in Tampa. What do y\u2019all think and feel about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the image\u2019s claim, the photo in the Facebook post does not show low-income housing in Tampa, or anywhere else in Florida. Check Your Fact found a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@procrastikait\/video\/6905809950962896134?lang=en&amp;is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> on TikTok of a resident from the apartment complex showing the same hallway. The video was posted in December 2020, and the caption indicates the complex is near Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.<\/p>\n<p>A match of the street view of the apartment on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@37.2348469,-80.4214365,3a,75y,283.16h,83.45t\/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8CKfmNu1bcLFMDo5A5mn1A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Maps<\/a> further confirmed the apartments are in Blacksburg, Virginia, near the university. The apartment units serve as off-campus housing for the university\u2019s students, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegerentals.com\/Tech-Village-Center-apartments-Blacksburg-Virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CollegeRentals.com<\/a>, and have also been listed on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zillow.com\/homedetails\/210-Tech-Village-Dr-APT-9-Blacksburg-VA-24060\/2112920781_zpid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zillow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A different <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@rayyy.of_sunshine\/video\/6986404735268031750?lang=en&amp;is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TikTok<\/a> video showing the complex also indicated it was located near Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and went viral in July, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/technology\/tiktok\/weirdest-ive-ever-seen-tiktok-user-shares-video-of-bizarre-apartment-building-c-3474132\">Seven News<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/08\/11\/fact-check-california-ban-travel-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did California Ban Travel To Florida?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Housing Authority unveiled a plan on June 29 to redevelop the Robles Park Village apartment complex, which will include over 800 units of affordable housing, according to Tampa NBC affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/hillsborough-county\/lost-african-american-cemetery-in-tampa-to-be-memorialized-during-housing-redevelopment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WFLA-TV<\/a>. The original complex was constructed on top of the Zion Cemetery, the city\u2019s first African American cemetery, and the new plan involves the construction of a memorial to those buried there, the outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/hillsborough-county\/lost-african-american-cemetery-in-tampa-to-be-memorialized-during-housing-redevelopment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook over 400 times purportedly shows a new low-income housing project under construction in Tampa, Florida.Verdict: False The image shows apartments for college students in Virginia. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}