Worried by the lack of affordable housing for its workers, Tampa General Hospital is moving ahead with plans for a $60 million apartment complex that will be offered to employees at rents below market rate.

The hospital has already secured $10 million from the state budget toward the cost of a 160-unit apartment block on Delaney Creek Boulevard in Brandon. Hillsborough County also provisionally earmarked $2 million over the next four years for the project.

The apartment building is classified as workforce housing and would be offered to hospital and USF Health workers who make between 80% and 120% of the region’s area median income, equivalent to a household income of $114,000 for a family of four. That could bring relief for workers such as nurses or physician’s assistants, but workforce housing is often beyond the means of many lower-income employees like janitors or cooks at the hospital.