The city manager wants Sarasota to develop an $80M affordable housing project. Good intentions, but this approach always fails. A voucher program would be better.
With setbacks including the death of Harvey Vengroff and COVID-19, the City Commission has granted One Stop Housing more time to begin building the Sarasota Station apartment complex in Park East.
Eight years and several revisions after it first surfaced, affordable-priced apartment community Sarasota Station enters the late stages of Development Review Committee approval.
The affordable housing predicament has reached crisis level for many in the region. Some creative leaders, in business and government, are on the front lines of delivering sustainable solutions.