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Housing

The housing boom put concerns about affordable housing front and center for working people in Florida, and RISEP’s detailed research has documented this crisis, showing both the numbers side and the human side. Reports, fact sheets, and maps offer detailed evidence of the lack of affordable options for working families in South Florida.

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March

Until their demolition in the past two years, Scott Homes and Carver Homes public housing projects contained a total of 850 conventional public housing rental units. The projects were demolished as part of a HOPE VI grant which Miami Dade Housing Agency received from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1999. The HOPE VI redevelopment plan was to relocate all of the existing residents, demolish all of the public housing units and rebuild a mixed income community with only eigh

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November

At the same time as the City of Miami is pursuing higher-density up-scale development and “world city” status, its’ residents face an affordable housing shortage of crisis proportions. Using recently released Census data from the 2006 American Community Survey, this report provides an updated assessment of housing affordability problems in the City of Miami, and analyzes three fundamental aspects of the housing crisis: housing “stress” or cost-burden, overcrowding in housing, and recen

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