The City of Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Housing Authority and First Coast Construction, broke ground on five new affordable homes in the Durkeeville neighborhood on Friday.

The homes will be built on Grothe Street, north of Kings Road and west of I-95.

Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan, City Council Member Jimmy Peluso, and Jacksonville Housing Authority Board Chair Heather Horovitz were at the groundbreaking.

The groundbreaking comes after a quarter of those surveyed for a recent University of North Florida Public Opinion Research Lab (PORL) poll said the most important problem facing Jacksonville is housing costs.

Among the 742 registered Duval County voters surveyed, crime came in a distant second as the top issue at 12%, followed by education, transportation and infrastructure, ea

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