Community groups recently did their part to make Key West's affordable-housing problem a little less of a problem in Bahama Village.

And as 10 low-income units go online in that community, the Alliance of Community Housing continues to work in the background, fine-tuning a plan its members call Helping 1,000 Families in 1,000 Days to increase and maintain already existing affordable units, primarily in Key West.

Four groups partnered in the project: The Southernmost Homeless Assistance League, Fla.  Department of Children and Family Services, the Bahama Conch Community Land Trust and Kinky Construction. With $750,000 in state funds, they repurposed a former bar in Bahama Village as 10 low-income housing units for families and the working homeless.

(Cross-posted from Florida Workforce Housing Network)