FORT LAUDERDALE — Thousands of new condos and apartments are coming to downtown, and the county wants them to include places where regular workers can afford to live.
The city is seeking Broward County‘s permission to add 5,000 residential units downtown, and officials say they will reserve 750 of them — or 15 percent — for housing priced for regular folks: nurses, waiters, office clerks and blue-collar workers.
County officials, however, want a guarantee that the affordable housing will actually be built. They fear developers could use up the 4,250 market-rate units without building any of the less-expensive housing.