Daniel Rivero
Investigative ReporterDaniel Rivero is part of WLRN's new investigative reporting team. Before joining WLRN, he was an investigative reporter and producer on the television series "The Naked Truth," and a digital reporter for Fusion.
His work has won honors of the Murrow Awards, Sunshine State Awards and Green Eyeshade Awards. He has also been nominated for a Livingston Award and a GLAAD Award on reporting on the background of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's tenure as Attorney General of Oklahoma and on the Orlando nightclub shooting, respectively.
Daniel was born on the outskirts of Washington D.C. to Cuban parents, and moved to Miami full time twenty years ago. He learned to walk with a wiffle ball bat and has been a skateboarder since the age of ten.
He can be reached at drivero@wlrnnews.org
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"When you have an enormous amount of resources that go into developing single family homes at the expense of multi-family housing, that's where the issue is. Just cost effectiveness," said Robin Bachin, of the University of Miami.
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Residents pushed the county to fund $5 million in rental assistance and eviction prevention programs — a drop in the record $11.7 billion proposed budget — as they sounded the alarm on the unaffordable cost of housing in a place that has become the epicenter of the nation’s housing crisis.
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The $15.5m Workforce Housing Incentive Program, unveiled by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava last year to help struggling workers afford soaring rental rates, has subsidized 222 houses so far — using just 3% of the money available.
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The Redland area is one of the only swaths of land in the continental United States where truly tropical fruits can be grown at a commercially viable scale. Farmers fear it is in danger.
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The next stop for the proposed ordinance is a committee meeting in September. If it clears that hurdle it would then go back to the full county commission for a final vote.
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The law changes how most public employees pay union dues, while requiring more members pay dues to keep unions alive. The double-whammy law is seen as an existential threat by many workers and unions.
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With Miami−Dade officials continuing their investigation of the Guardianship Program of Dade County and its real estate transactions, WLRN has learned that two companies — linked to Miami City Attorney Victoria Méndez — purchased and sold for hefty gains nearly three dozen properties that were once owned by the nonprofit, through a network of businesses or individuals.
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The call — after a federal jury found him liable for violating the civil rights of business owners who supported his political opponent — came at a rally outside City Hall, with support from across the geography of the city.
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Now that a federal jury has ordered the Miami commissioner to pay $63.5 million in a civil rights lawsuit, will Miami taxpayers have to pay the damages and what's next for him politically?
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Miami-Dade's Independent Civilian Panel is ramping up in its mission to oversee allegations of abuse by the Miami-Dade Police Department officers. The panel will hear its first case on May 23.
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Miami Beach's Art Deco district and Palm Beach's historic buildings are among those in the crosshairs as Florida lawmakers try to weaken historic preservation in coastal areas, saying many old buildings aren't safe enough for natural disasters.
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Fort Lauderdale's historic floods devastated the neighborhood of Edgewood. WLRN was there as distraught residents waded through water to find basic provisions and check on their homes.