Tampa Bay Times Spotlight: Rising Seas, Shifting Neighborhoods - Climate Change's Impact on Tampa Bay Housing" 7-16-26

Presented by the Tampa Bay Times, in partnership with Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg 
(7/21/2026) Rebroadcast by RadioStPete Sunshine 96.7 FM August 21 during Lunchtime Conversations. The Tampa Bay Times Spotlight conversation was held  at The Palladium (7/16/2026). 
Few factors threaten to impact the makeup of Tampa Bay neighborhoods more than climate change. Whether it be fiercer hurricanes or more frequent sunny day flooding, climate change will force residents to reckon with the fact that their homes may sit in perilous places. Will this prompt people to abandon once-desirable neighborhoods that now are under threat? And how will this reshape the socioeconomic makeup of communities? In this free community conversation, they examined how climate change is already reshaping Tampa Bay neighborhoods and how it could make them look drastically different from today.  
Moderator 
Jack Prator
Environment Reporter, Tampa Bay Times
Panelists
Mack Feldman 
Vice President of Asset Management, Feldman Equities

Sam Henderson 
Adjunct Professor of Natural Sciences, St. Petersburg College

Rep. Lindsay Cross 
Representative, District 60, Florida House 
 
Claude Tankersley 
Public Works Administrator, City of St. Petersburg  

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