I'm not from Tampa, and I cannot say, but Florida has the 4th highest unemployment rate in the country at 11.9%.
IIRC, they had the second biggest housing price collapse after Nevada in percentage terms.
So both incomes and wealth are down a lot in the Sunshine State.
That said, they didn't have a hurricane destroy large swathes of their city, so I'm not sure that the economy is enough of an excuse.