Panel discusses the thorny problem of affordable housing

Panel discusses the thorny problem of affordable housing

Longboat Key and affordable housing are two things not typically mentioned in the same breath. But on Thursday, the lack of affordable housing in the region was discussed at length at The Water Club on Longboat Key.Even though affordable housing is unlikely, if not impossible, on the barrier island, there is still a need for places for people of lower incomes to live nearby, said Lucy Lapovsky, a member of Miracle on the Key, the bipartisan grou…