‘A lot of need’: New Fort Myers housing program garners 400 applicants in a day [Video]

FORT MYERS, Fla. — The City of Fort Myers will soon choose a family to move into a home the city paid a company to build. The problem they’re running into: too many people want the house.

It’s an affordable housing program where the city takes city-owned lots, hire a company to build a single-family home on it and sell it back to a qualified family.

“It is a pathway to home ownership,” said Steve Belden, Community Development Director for the City of Fort Myers. “It’s making a house affordable for a family is what the goal is here.”

Find out why the city cannot take more applications right now:

‘A lot of need’: New Fort Myers housing program garners 400 applicants in one dayIn less than two days, the city got about 400 applications for the single-family home the city is building. Because of that, they had to close …