Pinellas County, Florida -- Residents who are thinking about buying a new home won’t want to miss There’s No Place Like Home, the radio show sponsored by the Housing Finance Authority of Pinellas County.

This month’s focus is the HOPE (Home Ownership for People Everywhere) Expo, coming to the Raymond James Financial Center on Saturday, June 8, from 8:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The expo offers a vast amount of information on home ownership, as well a daylong HomeBuyer Workshop. More information is available at http://www.hopeexpo.org/.

Pinellas County, Florida -- The Tampa Bay Fair Housing Consortium will present Housing Choices, Free of Discrimination on Friday, April 19.

Check-in is at 8 a.m. The program runs from 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. The day-long conference will be held at the Centre Club, 123 S. West Shore Blvd. in Tampa.

St. Pete Beach, Florida – City commissioners granted the new owners of the long-abandoned The Hotel Zamora permission to build 50 hotel rooms in the boutique-style hotel the new owners plan to build in the white shell sitting on the corner of 37th Avenue and Gulf Boulevard.