Richard Cieplechowicz · Tampa Bay data studies
The Tampa Bay Housing Data Handbook: video summary and transcript
A short video introduction to The Tampa Bay Housing Data Handbook, first edition 2026, with the full narration transcript and where to read it free.
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Transcript
“I used Instinct AI to turn my Tampa Bay housing research into a book. The Tampa Bay Housing Data Handbook is out now, free at the Internet Archive. It shows how the rent burden, home value and vacancy numbers are built from Census estimates, and what each one can and cannot tell you, across Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando. PDF and EPUB, free to read.”
Takeaways
The handbook brings the Tampa Bay housing data work into one volume: how the rent burden, home value and vacancy measures are built from U.S. Census Bureau five-year estimates, what each measure can and cannot support, and the property-office recordkeeping practices that make the numbers useful day to day. It covers Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties.
The handbook is free to read or download at the Internet Archive in PDF and EPUB, with an Open Library record. The underlying datasets are free with permanent DOIs on the Tampa Bay data studies page: rent burden 10.5281/zenodo.22940611, home values 10.5281/zenodo.23114338, and vacancy composition 10.5281/zenodo.23114340.