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With rents soaring across Phoenix, officials broke ground on an affordable housing project in the downtown area Thursday morning.
Monroe Gardens Apartments will replace the A.L. Krohn East public housing complex at Monroe and 15th streets in the low-income Edison-Eastlake neighborhood.
The old complex, which was built in the 1960s, had 38 units. Monroe Gardens will feature 78 energy-efficient apartments with a new playground and community space.