Affordable Housing

Many longtime Orlando locals are being priced out of their neighborhoods, or have been forced to the streets, and Orange County Leaders want to opt out of a state law protecting developers.

When Merete Muenter tells people that she pays $623 a month for her studio in an affordable housing complex in New York City, many assume the worst: a run-down dump in a crime-ridden neighborhood. The reality is that her subsidized rental is far nicer than any of the market-rate places she’s lived in previously. “People … don’t realize that my affordable housing apartment is in a luxury...