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Originally Posted by champion6
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Off the top of my head, I can think of 4 apartment living areas in Sumter County that have been announced:
Market rate apartments
Behind Lowe's in Lady Lake
Behind Lowe's in Wildwood (Trailwinds Village)
Expansion of Pepper Tree apartments
Rent subsidized apartments
South of 466 and west of CR 100
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Depending on how the subsidized apartments are managed, this might all be very good news. Up here we have a mixed bag. Some of the subsidized are out-and-out slums, where the poor are kept poor by crime and drugs. Some of them are actually pretty lovely, where people accept a hand up, take pride in maintaining their little gardens and take advantage of community outreach and education/vocation opportunities, stay until they're stable, and then move onward and upward.
Hopefully the subsidized housing will be the latter and folks living there will gain income and upward mobility by occupying some of the jobs being created with new retail and office development.