LGBTQ+ senior citizens in South Florida have a new housing option in Broward County. The Residences at Equality Park, on a five-acre campus north of Fort Lauderdale in the City of Wilton Manors, is the first affordable housing project in the state with services supporting the population — which is often overlooked and discriminated against.

It's a $15.3 million project that developers say acts on an urgent need for affordable housing in South Florida.

Miami-based Carrfour Supportive Housing, Florida's largest nonprofit affordable housing developer, and The Pride Center at Equality Park, one of the country's largest non-profit LGBTQ+ community centers, teamed up for the development.

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Melea VanOstrand

Melea VanOstrand oversees the Daily Business Review as ALM's Florida Bureau Chief. Email Melea at [email protected] or follow her on her Twitter or Facebook pages.