Construction is underway at a mixed-income housing complex in Fort Worth named after long-time activist and educator Opal Lee.
. The Opal will reserve 5% of the units for households earning 50% or less of AMI, according to Fort Worth Housing Solutions. , when an individual earning $45,300 or less a year met the 80% threshold. An annual income of $28,300 or less is 50% of AMI.
“We know that we have a large deficit of affordable units. Probably over 50,000 of our very low income,” Lemons said Thursday.“You ever live in a shotgun house? Take a rifle, you can shoot through the front door right through the back. Never touches anything. I have lived in some of that. I have lived in Butler Place, where it was decent housing compared to what I have lived in before,” she said. “So I’m ecstatic they’re going to wonderful places to live, as well as work.
Construction will take about two years. Fort Worth Housing Solutions expects to open The Opal in spring 2025.
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