The affordable housing stock is growing slowly as new projects in Broward and Palm Beach counties address the need among low-income residents. Atlantic | Pacific Communities and the Housing Authority of the City of Fort Lauderdale celebrated a groundbreaking Thursday on Northwest Gardens V with city commissioners Dean Trantalis and Robert L. McKinzie among the dignitaries in attendance.   The 200-unit apartment complex...

A community rebirth will be celebrated Thursday, with the completion of Northwest Gardens, a 150-acre, five-phase subsidized housing complex. The apartments rose on blocks that were blighted, north of Sistrunk Boulevard off 12th Avenue in northwest Fort Lauderdale. The subsidized housing community, a project of the Fort Lauderdale Housing Authority, is complete three years ahead of schedule. About 1,500 people with low...

UPDATED June 14, 2 p.m.: Atlantic | Pacific Communities, an arm of Atlantic | Pacific Companies, just completed the fifth phase of an affordable housing project in Fort Lauderdale. Northwest Gardens V, phase five of the development at 700 Northwest 12th Avenue and 100 Southeast 18th Avenue, will bring 100 new units and 100 redeveloped units to the city, the company announced. The...