Affordable housing funds in Pinellas for mixed income projects? Advocates say itâs not solving the problem.
County officials say they must leverage affordable units into mixed income projects. Activists want county funds to only pay for affordable units.
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This city-owned property at 306 S. Washington Avenue in downtown Clearwater is the site of one of the projects that received affordable housing Penny for Pinellas funding last month. The developer is proposing 153 units between 81 percent and 120 percent of area median income, or $84,000 for a family of four, the threshold of workforce housing. The county gave the project $5.6 million towards the $38.4 million total cost. [ DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times ]