MIAMI—With demand for affordable housing on the rise across South Florida, Miami-based Carrfour Supportive Housing is teaming up with Pinnacle Housing Group to more units in Miami-Dade County. The joint venture are developing the Amistad Apartments housing community to serve the needs of formerly homeless and low-income families in Miami's Little Havana.

Scheduled to open in January 2014, Amistad will be located at 571 SW 9th Street in Miami and offer 89 affordable housing units. Forty-five units are designated for residents earning at or below 28% of the area's median income. These units are considered homeless housing. The remaining 44 units designated for residents earning 60% of the area's median income. These are considered affordable housing and low-income housing.

In response to a clear example of the desperate need for affordable housing throughout Miami, last Thursday, October 10, 2013, Carrfour—joined by Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro—held a lottery drawing at its corporate office for Amistad's 44 available affordable units after receiving more than 1,500 resident applications submitted to the organization over the last month.