TAMPA, Fla. — We've been seeing it for years — the cost of living in Florida has ballooned, just as the state's population continues to grow, too. The result of that growth has affected rent prices.

Zenith Word, 33, was hoping to stay another year in the $1,000-a-month, two-bedroom apartment in a walkable, diverse neighborhood in northeast Tampa. Word, a disabled Army veteran who is on a fixed ...

A new study found that people living or wanting to move to one of the Sunshine's state fastest growing cities need to make at least $85,000 annually to afford the skyrocketing housing costs in Florida ...