Local low-income seniors will soon have hundreds of new affordable housing options, with some units dedicated to households earning just 40% of the area median income.
The Pinellas County Housing Authority (PCHA) recently acquired an undeveloped parcel in northeast St. Petersburg that will house Flats on 4th, an 80-unit senior housing development. The first phase of an 80-unit redevelopment project in unincorporated Largo is nearing completion, and demolition on the second begins this week.
Seniors typically rely on fixed incomes and are particularly susceptible to soaring costs. Neil Brickfield, executive director of PCHA, said the 240 in-progress units help ensure they “never have to worry about housing again.”…