ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A new affordable housing neighborhood for seniors is coming to Pine Hills. Hawthorne Park Apartments is a $27 million construction project that will help low-income seniors who need an affordable home in Orange County. [TRENDING: Gaetz investigated over relationship | Disney paying workers who get vaccine | Dozens get COVID after vaccine shots] “This $27 million construction project means people will go back to work, they will begin to make an income and then we are taking care of our seniors,” Mayor Jerry Demings said.
Officials explained more than 100,000 people in Orange County spend a third of their income on housing payments, most of them seniors.