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Message from the Mayor
here has been a lot of buzz around town lately about the affordability of
housing in our community. Your city government takes this issue very seriously.
TWe are working hard to ensure people of all incomes can live here.
As your mayor, I want Fort Lauderdale to be a dynamic, cosmopolitan city. I believe
that means we need to be a community where people of all incomes are able to live.
Nurses, teachers, restaurant servers, bank tellers, seniors on fixed incomes and recent
graduates should not be priced out of making Fort Lauderdale their home.
Over the past two years in particular, the city has made tremendous strides in
expanding housing opportunities for those who earn middle and lower incomes.
The City Commission has approved numerous affordable housing projects, often
encouraging their construction with the use of community redevelopment money and
incentives allowed in our land-use regulations.
First, the city's Housing Authority has been expanding its portfolio of public housing:
• Suncrest Court. The Housing Authority is rebuilding this 8.5-acre public housing site
Dean Trantalis to improve living conditions and almost double the number of units. Previously
Mayor consisting of 68 units, Suncrest is undergoing a $28.7 million makeover into a rental
community of six buildings with 116 units. The city designated the property last year
as a brownfield site to help facilitate its redevelopment. It should open next fall.
Dean J. Trantalis
Mayor • Sailboat Bend II. Offering views of the New River, this 110-unit complex will serve
dtrantalis@fortlauderdale.gov low-income seniors downtown when it opens next fall. The Housing Authority is
building it on the lot adjacent to its earlier Sailboat Bend I project that was also geared
toward seniors. Units will be rented at about half of the market rate for the area.
Scott Wyman
Chief of Staff to the Mayor • Poinciana Crossing. This is another Housing Authority project moving forward with
954-828-5314 city assistance. When the City Commission canceled the Wave streetcar project
swyman@fortlauderdale.gov because of its increasing cost, we had to decide what to do with land that was
dedicated for its maintenance facility. The commission sold the property to the Housing
City Hall, 8th Floor Authority for $1 and designated it a green reuse site to facilitate its redevelopment.
100 N Andrews Ave Construction will start next fall. When completed, it will have 113 units targeted to
lower-income families.
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• Federal Apartments. The Housing Authority is investigating the possibility of
redeveloping this privately-owned community of 164 units off Sistrunk Boulevard.
Residents earlier this year complained of blighted conditions. Their concerns prompted
an investigation by city code inspectors and the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development and led the Housing Authority to step forward.
• Broadview Park. The Housing Authority and the city have been in negotiations
to allow it to build a housing complex on city-owned land just outside Fort Lauderdale
in unincorporated Broadview Park. The goal is to build more than 500 units of
public housing.
My thanks go out to the staff and board members of the Housing Authority for
showing such leadership and helping the city on this important goal. In addition to
their work, a lot of effort on workforce housing has been occurring in the private
sector, again often with city assistance.
• Six13. Affiliated Development is building an 11-story, mixed-use tower in the
CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE Sistrunk Boulevard corridor that includes 142 workforce rental units.
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