A 10-story apartment tower with 84 affordable housing units could soon rise at 1708 N. Dixie Highway in Hollywood, where developer Housing Trust Group is pushing forward with plans for a project called The Mosaic. The building would include 103 parking spaces, a swimming pool and a fitness center on a 21,261-square-foot parcel the company has under contract.
Housing Trust Group is acquiring the site from Pro Ven for $2.6 million, according to Florida YIMBY. The outlet reports the 103 parking spots work out to roughly 1.23 spaces per unit, and that the company is an affordable housing developer moving forward with the project. The Mosaic is being filed under Florida's Live Local Act, a state law designed to fast-track certain affordable housing developments.
Under the statute, municipalities must authorize qualifying multifamily and mixed-use residential projects in specified areas once at least 40% of a project's residential units are rental units affordable for at least 30 years, according to Florida Statutes Section 166.04151. The law also bars cities from restricting density below whichever is least restrictive between the highest currently allowed density or the density that was allowed as of July 1, 2023.
What Happens Next in Hollywood's Review Process
It's not yet clear whether The Mosaic has moved beyond a proposal or pre-application stage. The City of Hollywood requires all development applications to go through a pre-application consultation meeting before formal review begins, but projects presented at that stage aren't guaranteed to advance into official applications, per the City of Hollywood's Development Planning office. Larger projects — those exceeding 30,000 square feet or 30 units, or those seeking special permissions — ultimately go before the city's Planning and Development Board for a decision.
Housing Trust Group has other affordable projects in motion elsewhere in South Florida. The company is also behind Lakeview at Naranja, a two-phase development in Homestead that will include more than 300 residences reserved for households earning between 30% and 80% of area median income, the same outlet's report on that project notes. Hoodline previously covered the $126M Naranja Lakes housing deal as it advanced through the local redevelopment agency.
Hollywood's Broader Affordable Housing Push
The Mosaic would join a growing list of affordable and partially affordable projects planned or underway in Hollywood. The Tropic at 303 S. Federal Highway is planned to offer 224 rental units, half of them affordable, while Guitar View at 5200 S. State Road 7 is set to reserve 80 of its 198 units for affordable housing, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Across Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood and Hallandale Beach, developers are building 685 units set aside as affordable workplace housing at six locations combined, the newspaper reports.
Housing Trust Group has already broken ground on another Hollywood project, Villa Jordana, a $47 million affordable senior community slated to open in 2027 for low-income seniors earning between 33% and 60% of the city's median monthly income, the Sun Sentinel reported earlier this year. That pipeline reflects a regional trend: as of April, roughly 37,200 housing units were under construction across South Florida, with 38% of them fully or partially affordable, according to a MIAMI Realtors analysis.
Within the Fort Lauderdale market area, which covers most of Broward County, Hollywood ranked among the submarkets with the most active construction, with 1,272 units underway as of April, per the same analysis. Broward's median income stood at $96,200 in 2025, though the underlying document offering that figure carries lower confidence and does not itself detail income limits specific to The Mosaic. Many of the details that would typically accompany a project this size — unit mix, income limits, financing sources, or a construction timeline — have not yet been made public for The Mosaic.
