Metro Approves Migrant Housing in Leisure City

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An effort by Naranja Lakes residents to block construction of farmworker housing near their hurricane-ravaged neighborhood failed Tuesday when Metro commissioners overwhelmingly approved the project. Rejecting worries about more crime and poverty encroaching on the area, the commissioners voted 11-1 to go ahead with a plan for temporary housing for 300 migrant families on 42 acres in Leisure City, at the former site of the Royal Colonial Mobile Home Park.

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