By Keyonna Summers, Times Staff Writer
Thursday, November 3, 2011
CLEARWATER — Pinellas social service agencies have long decried the lack of affordable housing, especially for families.
Yet five months after opening Fairway Gardens, the Dunedin Housing Authority can't seem to find tenants for the complex's four available affordable housing apartments.
Officials have perched vacancy signs on the front lawn of the complex, which is in Clearwater. They've passed out fliers and posted ads on Craigslist and other websites. Newspaper ads and notices on the city of Dunedin's site direct folks to Fairway Gardens' website, where prospective tenants can get a feel for the roomy, newly renovated one- and two-bedroom units.
The apartments, located at 30 and 110 N Lady Mary Drive in Clearwater within a 20-unit complex of mixed public housing and affordable housing, rent for $675 a month. The U.S. Department of Housing and ...