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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.
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The budget passed with the sole dissenting vote coming from Commissioner Michael Udine who wanted to lower the property tax rate.
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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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Plans are underway for the iconic Miami Beach hotel and bar to be replaced with a high-end restaurant and affordable housing units.
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The Miami-Dade County mayor tells WLRN what she sees as the budget’s more urgent priorities and what lies ahead.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).