The State of Miami’s Housing Crisis: An Updated Look at Housing Affordability Problems in One of the

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 recent trends in housing costs compared to workers’ wages.

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