{"id":85580,"date":"2025-12-16T18:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85580\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:16:08","slug":"264-unit-affordable-housing-community-to-break-ground-next-month-near-the-warehouse-arts-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85580\/","title":{"rendered":"264-unit affordable housing community to break ground next month near the Warehouse Arts District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Fairfield Avenue Apartments was first proposed in early 2022 and made history when St. Petersburg became <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/2022\/4\/14\/264-unit-affordable-housing-development-approved-for-31st-street-in-st-petersburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida\u2019s first city to approve an affordable housing development under House Bill 1339<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The 2021 legislation, a precursor to the Live Local Act, allows local governments to permit affordable residential developments in industrially zoned areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The unit mix includes 74 one-bedroom units, 162 two-bedroom units, and 28 three-bedroom units. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Of those, 53 units will be reserved for households earning at or below 50% of the Area Median Income (AMI), 67 units for households earning up to 80% AMI, and 144 units for households earning up to 120% AMI. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Amenities will include a community pool, meeting and conference rooms, computer labs, a bike corral and repair workshop, green spaces with picnic and barbecue pavilions, playground areas, and extensive bicycle parking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fairfield Avenue Apartments was first proposed in early 2022 and made history when St. Petersburg became Florida\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-85580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}