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Some of the politicos in the Keys bring up affordable housing whenever they are running or want to look good for something. Truth is very little of it ever gets built. And by the time it does get built so many long term Keys people have moved out, it's almost anticlimactic.

We have an 11 mile road on upper key largo with thousands of acres that are nothing but swamp, mangroves, yet high and dry land. Very buildable, but it has endangered rats, mice, trees, crocs and more important stuff than affordable housing.
So it just sits off the tax rolls year after year. And those who make less than 75-80 thousand per household leave the keys in droves every year.
Its a great placed to live as long as you don't have to work and are independently wealthy.

On our last trip to Florida several years ago we spent a week in Ft Meyers, another at Ft Lauderdale (hated it) and the last week in Key Largo. Loved Key Largo.