Developers of a cloistered Fort Lauderdale senior living home could very well be Florida's first to target the LGBT community exclusively.
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Miami-based Carrfour Supportive Housing is eyeing a 48-unit redevelopment project in Wilton Manors named The Pride Center at Equality Park.
Carrfour, a nonprofit senior housing developer, is spearheading the project in a JV with The Pride Center—a senior housing operator—to transform the five-acre campus at the corner of North Dixie Highway and NE 20th Drive into the residences, with 60% of the units targeting those earning an average of $35k/year, and with disabilities and diseases such as HIV/AIDS. The first phase, which will deliver by 2018, will be followed by another 74 units.
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The project would be one of the first marketed toward gay, lesbian and transgender septuagenarians in Florida. But it's a growing senior housing type in other states, including with projects in California and Illinois. And of those LGBT folks reaching their Golden Ages, some 47% are living with some form of disabling condition, according to LGBT activist stats.
“Broward County has a rapidly expanding population of aging LGBT adults and, unfortunately, very limited affordable housing options,” The Pride Center CEO Robert Boo (above) says.
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