affordable housing

The program was modeled after a similar one approved by Miami-Dade County last year that has seen success in the few months since receiving funding.

The budget passed with the sole dissenting vote coming from Commissioner Michael Udine who wanted to lower the property tax rate.

"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.

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.

Plans are underway for the iconic Miami Beach hotel and bar to be replaced with a high-end restaurant and affordable housing units.

The Miami-Dade County mayor tells WLRN what she sees as the budget’s more urgent priorities and what lies ahead.

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.

South Florida's skyrocketing rent prices are hitting college students — hard. As the new term starts at Florida Atlantic University, WLRN found many struggling to find, or afford, accommodation.

This week on The Florida Roundup, we look into the suspension of Florida's affordable housing director and what it means for the new Live Local Act. Plus, Brightline's Miami-to-Orlando service is coming soon — what's next for Florida's high-speed rail? We get into that and other transportation news.

The rise in ALICE households — "Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed" — climbed to more than 346,000 households in 2021, up from about 328,000 in 2019. The COVID−19 pandemic started in March 2020.

On the South Florida Roundup, WLRN’s Tim Padgett spoke about the county’s longstanding quality of life problems related to traffic, housing unaffordability and low wages.

On the South Florida Roundup, we spoke about whether Miami is facing an exodus, the race to rescue our local coral reef from the effects of climate change (18:44), and we examined Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s draconian crusade to bring down the gangs whose violence drives so many Central American migrants here (35:15).