Neighborhood Transformation
Archive of South Florida
Community Development News
(Articles formerly posted on the defunct floridacdc.org website)
- 2/9/11: NANAY Gets Funding for Housing Counseling
- 12/19/10: Opa-locka CDC is transforming the the notorious "Triangle" neighborhood
- 10/28/10 - St John CDC uses NSP funds to revitalize Overtown
- 6/11/10: Overtown Town Park Village update
- 6/8/10: Overtown's Town Park Village in crisis
- 12/13/09: Troubled Metro-Miami Action Plan restructured and renamed
- 7/26/09: Opa-locka CDC to acquire bank foreclosed homes with ATT grant and Miami Heat
- 7/26/09: Overtown CRA expands its boundaries.
- 6/17/09: Update on federal Neighborhood Stabilization program in South Florida
- 6/4/09: Gov. Crisp signs controversial overhaul of Growth Management Act.
- 3/13/09: Overtown CRA boundaries to be expanded
- 3/2/09: IRS expands tax credit for first time homebuyers (buyers get cash now and not a year later)
- 3/2/09: North Miami affordable housing private developer gets bailout from City.
- 3/2/08: Affordable mobile home parks close in South Florida at alarming rate
- 3/2/09: Greater Miami Neighborhoods properties change hands
- 1/19/09: Miami Beach CDC and Carrfour get CITI grants for affordable rental projects.
- 1/15/09: Poor take a big hit in state's raid of 'trust funds'
- 12/12/08: Rafael Hernandez Housing and Economic Development Corporation: Building New Homes
- 11/27/08: Blistering Audit of MMAP
- 11/14/08: Federal funds for South Florida to buy up foreclosed properties
- 10/17/08: Recommendations to Miami-Dade for use of NSP Grants
- 9/30/08: North Miami CRA expands foreclosure assistance
- 9/27/08: South Florida to get $108 million in foreclosure funds
- 7/20/08: New State law affects property tax appraisals for affordable housing
- 7/5/08: Beacon Council battles MMAP before County Commission
- 6/23/08: Update of Villa Godoy condominium in East Little Havana
- 6/11/08: New affordable housing in Little Haiti
- 4/25/08: State legislature poised to extend Miami-Dade "Surtax" subsidy program.
- 3/29/08: Article about community land trusts in Broward and Palm Beach
- 3/19/08:local nonprofits compete for new source of affordable housing subsidy.
- 3/19/08: Biscayne Group and Carlise partner for Village Allapattah.
- 2/13/08: City of North Miami to directly own and operate affordable rental units.
- 1/24/08: Greater Miami Neighborhoods files for bankruptcy
- 1/14/08: Greater Miami Neighborhoods update
- 1/6/08: "We Buy Ugly Homes" a community development tool??
- 12/27/07: North Miami Housing Partnership makes first loans
- 12/19/07: Miami-Dade may not rebuild all of Scott Homes under troubled HOPE VI program
- 12/09/07: Using Miami Beach CDC model for acquiring surplus condo units
- 11/29/07: County to Set up Land Trust
- 11/17/07: Liberty City Revitalization Trust promises new rental units.
- 10/15/07: Wynwood Foreign Trade Zone update
- 9/13/07: County proposes cuts to "Mom and Pop" grant program to small minority owned businesses.
- 8/31/07: Census reports City of Miami in top 5 in rate of poverty
- 8/28/07: Miami Beach Manager clears misconception about Miami Beach CDC
- 8/28/07: Wynwood Foreign Trade Zone emerges from bankruptcy, Many new jobs to be created.
- 8/21/07: Tom Zuniga and Workforce Housing
- 7/20/07: Black middle class leaving Miami Dade
- 7/7/07: City of Miami replaces housing director because of newspaper articles
- 7/7/07:
Miami Beach
CDC creates affordable rents in South Beach.
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6/5/07:
Community
land trust in West Palm Beach is a success
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5/17/07:
Last Scott-Carver
public housing building not yet demolished named historic landmark
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5/3/07:
Coconut Grove
affordable-housing plans win backing
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4/28/07:
Study shows
Miami inner city economies undervalued
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3/30/07:
ABDA completes 30
unit affordable homeownership project in Allapattah
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2/27/07: Coconut Grove's black community, negotiate to
control gentrifying projects
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2/19/07:
West Palm Beach city government's hostility to affordable housing in
its incompetent and unfair dealings with Northwood Rennaisance, a local
nonprofit developer
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2/15/07:
City of Miami to
explore expedited permits for affordable housing
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2/14/07:
U.S. HUD may take over Miami Dade Housing Agency
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1/23/07:
Neighborhood Housing
Services assisting City of Homestead to create Community Land Trust.
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1/19/07:
BAME Development Corp
to build senor apartments in Overtown
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12/19/06:
Affordable housing
debate in Palm Beach County (news analysis)
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12/15/06:
Broward County
Property Appraiser goes to war against nonprofits
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12/13/06:
Miami Beach CDC gets
$5 million federal grant for affordable housing.
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12/12/06:
HUD cuts off
Miami-Dade CDBG social services money for a year
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12/10/06:
Northwood
Renaissance in Plam Beach County receives Bank of America
Award
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12/6/06:
LISC works in Riviera
Beach to demolish apartments to construct mixed income project.
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12/01/06:
Little Haiti Housing
Association spearheads effort to revitalize NE 2nd Ave.
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11/23/06:
Miami-Dade Housing
Agency gets new boss
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11/9/06:
Study finds Economic
Opportunity in Miami's distressed neighborhoods
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11/7/06:
Miami gives grant for
Overtown's controversial Crosswinds project.
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10/30/06:
Denver studing
Miami's homeless programs as possible model
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10/25/06:
LISC unveils
Overtown redevelopment plan. City commits funds.
- 9/28/06: CDC in Allapattah has JV
with Related Group to create 1000 units on County land
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9/25/06:
St. Agnes
Village, 80 new affordable homes in Overtown
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9/18/06:
South Miami
Redevelopment Agency
gets new boost, affordable housing approved.
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8/28/06:
North
Miami city
commission questions affordable developer
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8/11/06:
Carrfour project for
formerly homeless back on track in North Beach
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8/7/06:
Miami's
Overtown - battle
over gentrification heats up
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8/1/06:
Article on Northwood
Renaissance's work in West Palm Beach
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7/26/06:
Part 4
"House of Lies"
- buyers flipping houses for profit
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7/25/06:
Part 3 "House of Lies" -
Botched redevelopment of Liberty City public housing
- 7/24/06:Part 2"House of Lies" - funds funneled to to politically connected insiders
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7/23/06:
Part 1 "House of Lies"
-Trouble at the Miami-Dade Housing Agency
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7/18/06:
St. John CDC
completes 14 townhouses in Overtown
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7/14/06:
Neighborhood Housing
Services building innovative homes in Homestead.
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7/8/06:
Audit
takes to task Model
City Trust for mismanagement
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6/29/06:
Rising
costs cripple
faith-based housing efforts
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6/9/06:
Opa-locka CDC implements
housing rehab program for "the Triangle"
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6/6/06:
Liberty City's 54th
Street to be reconfigured
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6/6/06:
Miami's Brownsville
community to be revitalized by NHS.
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5/24/06:
Hallendale Beach buying
lots to building affordable housing
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5/22/06;
City of
North
Miami
considering Tony Crapp for redevelopment czar
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5/22/06:
Liberty City's 54th St.
to get makeover
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4/24/06:
Developers sue Florida
Cities challenging inclusionary zoning laws
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4/13/06: The
truth about last
year's cuts in Florida's affordable housing funding
- 4/4/06:
MLK Econmic
Development Corp brings MLK's daughter to help revitalize Liberty
City
- 3/27/06:
Neighborhood
Housing Services teams creates affordable housing
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3/13/06:
Homestead wants no
part of County affordable housing
- 3/9/06: New
Visions CDC in Broward
uses innovative meathod to preserve affordability
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3/1/06:
Miami-Dade's affordable
housing plan questioned by FIU report
- 2/21/06:
Miami-Dade County puts
Tony Crapp in charge of Community Development department.
- 2/19/06:
Workers in the Keys can't
find housing, they must commute from Miami-Dade
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2/13/06:
Leasa Industries
honored for job expansion in Miami's Liberty City
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1/29/06:
Miami-Dade building
permits made easier (but improvements still needed)
- 1/23/06:
Broward County
gives infill lots to Lennar for affordable units, CDCs
complain
- 1/19/06: Delray
Beach community land trust
- 1/14/06: Miami
Black churches in
dialog with banks for more effective redevelopment efforts
- 1/7/06:
Builders challenge
affordable housing rules in Palm Beach County
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1/7/06: Delray
Beach spurns
developers to focus on affordable housing
- 12/27/05:
middle class pioneers
lead gentrication trend in Miami's poor areas
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12/12/05:
Miami-Dade County
Commission takes up Affordable Housing Ordinance
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11/19/05:
City of Miami
imposes new "impact fee" on developers.
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11/14/05:
Miami-Dade
Commision to take up inclusionary zoning law
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11/13/05:
Miami disputes land sale with Haitian American
Foundation
- 11/4/05:
Displaced by hurricane
confronted by affordable housing crisis
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10/22/05:
Foundations join New
York City for new affordable housing initiative
- 10/9/05:
Rental
housing disappears
as huge numbers of units converted to condo
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9/27/05:
Miami's "Model City
Trust" kept alive but director resigns
- 9/23/05:
rising
property
taxes put
squeeze on affordable rental projects
- 9/16/05: "Black
Grove" being
reshaped
- 9/15/05:
Controversy - City of
Miami and County dispute tax appraisal method for affordable
projects
- 9/11/05: low
income residents
protest gentrification displacement
- 8/23/05:
Opinion - developers
defend abandonment of Pembroke Pines project - not enough
subsidy
- 8/19/05:
City
owned vacant lots used for affordable housing in NYC
- 8/4/05:
Sarasota to create
Florida's largest land trust
- 8/3/05: New
Boynton Beach
"affordable" units out of reach for working class
families
- 8/1/05: South
Florida
moves
towards high density future
- 7/13/05: Condo
boom creates
shortage of construction labor
- 7/8/05:
Pinnacle backs out of
affordable housing commitment to Pembroke Park
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6/30/05:
Nonprofit breaks ground on 32 unit affordable condominium in
East Little Havana
- 6/17/05: "Eastward Ho" is no longer
government policy
- 6/9/05:
New Biotech center
in Liberty City's Poinciana Industrial Park to break
ground.
- 5/26/05:
Cement, labor shortages still dog county construction
- 5/15/05:
Liberty City 25 years after the McDuffie riots
- 5/12/05:
foreigners buy 60% of
all South Florida Real Estate
- 5/11/05:
Miami-Dade NHS's homeownership
effort adds financial incentives
- 4/24/05:
developers turning away from affordable housing
- 4/25/05:
progress report on new $120 million biopharmaceutical park in Liberty
City
- 4/19/05:
St. Agnes CDC produces 80 affordable homes in Overtown
- 4/17/05:
Broward public housing
units to be demolished and replaced with upscale housing
- 4/14/05:
Broward seeks new tax to support affordable housing
- 4/11/05:
Carrfour Corp. is converting former hotels into affordable housing
- 3/15/05: Federal HUD scrutinizes Ft. Lauderdale redevelopment project.
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3/11/05:
Delray Beach
engages in land assembly for affordable housing
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3/7/05:
Miami Dade
NHS announces $25 million comprehensive homeownership initiative.
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2/24/05:
Major transit
oriented development project at Tri-Rail station in Hollywood
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2/9/05:
Opinion -
Miami's Overtown CRA now on better financial footing
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1/28/05:
Overtown
lawsuit settlement finalized (article includes full background of
dispute)
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1/27/05:
Overtown lawsuit settlement agsins gentrifying development
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1/26/05:
Scarce
County CDBG anti-poverty funds to pay defaulted Parrot Jungle loan
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1/8/05:
Federal HUD
demands City of Miami return funds for Liberty City houses never built.
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1/5/05:
Broward
offers free lot program to developers
- 12/31/04:
Miami-Dade's Seventh Ave. - neglect in Liberty City and West Little
River
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12/31/04:
Manufactured housing become a competitive alternative as prices soar
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12/27/04:
New Visions
CDC creates affordable home ownership at its Sweeting Estates
development
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12/26/04:
Liberty
City merchants struggle
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12/23/04:
Beacon
Council hires "urban initiatives" director
- 12/19/04:
Hialeah city
commission debates future re-development of historic 200 acre horse
racing track
- 12/9/04:
City of Miami may have
to return unspent CDBG funds to the feds
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12/8/04:
Federal
lawsuit filed against Southwest Ranches for its refusal to provide
affordable housing
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12/7/04:
Delray gives
new incentives to developers to build affordable housing
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11/26/04:
Carrfour
Corporation's newest housing development for the former homeless
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11/21/04:
Miami Beach
CDC fights for historic preservation to preserve affordable housing
- 11/15/04:Inclusionary zoning proposal would
require developers to make units affordable
- 11/7/04:Lauderdale makes move toward affordable housing
- 11/1/04:
Broward
plan: Free land for builders of affordable housing
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10/28/04:
Brownfields
advocates pushing for greater development incentives
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10/14/04:
School
system plays role in attracting bio-park to Liberty City
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10/10/04:
Broward SR
7/US 441 is a key to redevelopment low income neighborhoods
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10/8/04:
Neighbors
& Neighbors (NANA) helps mom and pop business to thrive in
Liberty
City
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10/7/04:
New
pharmaceutical campus in Liberty City could add 1,500 jobs
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10/6/04:
City in
Broward County wants to buy out its affordable housing obligation
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9/30/04:
Broward
raises allowable minimum sales price for subsidized affordable home
purchases
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9/29/04:
Miami-Dade
Task Force on Urban Economic Revitalization highlights business
successes
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9/29/05:
Proposal for
Hurricane Resistant Mobile Homes
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9/12/04:
Carrfour
Corporation's Little Haiti project for the homeless is recognized and
honored
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9/7/04:
$103 million
bond closed for redevelopment of Buena Vista (a/k/a "MidTown Miami")
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8/23/04:
Building
boom challenges Miami's poor
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8/23/04:
City of
Miami makes affordable home ownership loans to "intergenerational"
families
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8/6/04:
affordable
Overtown elderly apartments being developed Urban League and Jubilee CDC
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7/29/04:
"Black"
Grove faces redevelopment
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7/25/04:
Opa Locka
CDC purchases 421 unit apartment complex - will spend millions to rehab
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7/23/04:
Housing
costs rising - "South Florida is getting to be like Claifornia"
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7/7/04:
Revitalization activity in the Western Coconut Grove
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7/4/04:
Jubilee CDC
obtains assistance from City for low income homebuyers
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7/4/04:
NANA achieves
success with its "Mom and Pop Small Business Grant Program"
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6/24/04:
Average
Miami-Dade home price twice as much as most can afford
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6/24/04:
Overtown
seeks developer for 90,000-square-foot property
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6/11/04:
"Nimbyism"
inhibits new affordable housing in Palm Beach County
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6/6/04:
Miami-Dade
middle class shrinking, neighborhood improvements recommended
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6/6/04:
Broward
County and local municipalities quarrel over CRA's
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6/01/04:
affordable
housing developer faces "house of horrors" working with Miami-Dade
County
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5/18/04:
Better
regional planning needed to avert bleak future for South Florida
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5/17/04:
$150 million
Crosswinds development deal eyed for southern fringe of Overtown
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5/16/04:
Overtown
"transit village" to begin construction in August
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5/6/04:
Opa Locka CDC offers affordable home repair loans
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4/30/04: City of Miami approves large subsidies for
56 acre Buena Vista project in Wynwood
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4/29/04:
Miami-Dade home prices jump 17% since March 2003
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4/22/04:
$170 million in public subsidy for Buena Vista in Wynwood
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4/21/04:Miami Dade County proposes changes to affordable housing policies
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4/21/04:
More than half of low-income homebuyers who bought homes
returned to renting within 5 years
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4/5/05:
Affordable Townhomes being constructed in Opa-Locka
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4/4/04:
Efforts to revitalize King Blvd in Liberty City
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3/31/04:
Florida Community Loan Fund - $6 million partnership with Enterprise
Foundation.
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3/24/04:
Few Palm Beach County builders use affordability incentives
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3/18/04:
Miami-Dade mulls "sales-tax free
zones" for poor neighborhoods
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3/13/04:
"Nimbyism" in Broward - town fights to keep affordable housing out
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3/10/04:
Increase in affordable
housing approved for the Keys
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2/27/04:
Jeb Bush wants to end guaranteed funding for affordable housing
-
2/26/04:
Broward County's new redeveloment capital program clashes with
municipal CRAs
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2/22/04
- City of Miami's single Homeowership Zone - Model City Community
Revitalization Trust
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2/19/04:
Blind "Nimbyism" type opposition hinders innovative affordable housing
in West Boynton
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2/18/04:
Wynwood/Buena Vista redevelopment gets County backing for federal
redevelopment loan.
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2/14/04:
Carrfour champions development of "supportive housing" for the homeless
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2/11/04:
Broward County creates controversial fund to redevelop blighted
neighborhoods
- 2/5/04:
Key
West to set up a
"homeless zone"
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2/5/04:
Knight
Foundation
announced new grants for Overtown redevelopment
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2/3/04:
Plantation in
Broward Co.
uses special taxing district and CDBG for redevelopment
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1/27/04:
The challenge
of
incorporating poor neighborhoods - the Miami Gardens experience
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1/15/04:
Proposed Fla.
legislation seeks to scrutinize nonprofits
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1/9/04
- Miami agency
to
redevelop Overtown (the CRA) to get better oversight
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1/5/04:
North Miami to
create
massive new CRA district
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1/1/04:
Summary of
transit
oriented development projects at MetroRail statitions
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12/29/03:
Miami Beach
CDC to
produce comprehensive guide to Miami architecture
-
12/25/03:
Wynwood
redevelopment
update ("Buena Vista")
-
12/17/03:
Beacon
Council urged to
do more in poor neighborhoods
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12/5/03:
Soaring home
prices in
S. Florida erasing housing for workers
-
11/23/03:
Housing
costs in
Broward skyrocket
-
11/22/03:
CDCs produce
new
housing in Delray.
-
11/22/03:
Innovative
manufactured
housing Tampa
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11/15/03:
Putting
I-395
underground will affect low income neighborhoods
-
11/7/03:
Public
Housing
Desegregation - Miami-Dade wants to renegotiate Court Order
-
10/31/03:
Miami CRA
audit reveals
lack of oversight.
-
10/31/03:
MetroRail
extention
through North Central Dade to Broward line approved - key to
revitalization
-
10/13/03:
Miami CRA
once again
under scrutiny
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10/7/03:
Public
Housing HOPE VI -
Jacsksonville and Miami compared
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10/5/03:
Update on
HOPE VI
revitalization of public housing in Liberty City
-
9/30/03:
Tri-Rail
studying new
route in FEC/Biscayne Blvd. corridor
-
9/25/03:
MetroRail
plan for NW
27th Ave. Route approved by residents.
-
9/14/03
- Mass Transit
will shape
growth for Biscayne Blvd. Corridor NE Miami-Dade
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9/10/03
: Miami Dade bond issue to rebuild decrepit infrastructure
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8/29/03:
Liberty City
merchants
get a break from draconian parking restrictions.
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8/28/03:
Miami
downgrades plans
for 60-acre park in Little Haiti to two soccer fields
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8/25/03:
New parkng
ban hurts
viablity of Liberty City business district
- 8/22/03:Overtown's CRA comes under scrutiny for questionable practices.
-
8/12/03:
New
municipality in
Broward tries to avoid state's affordable housing requirement.
-
8/3/03
- Redevelopment
projects
in Overtown
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8/3/03:
History of
Overtown's
Poverty
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7/7/03:
Plan to raze
1-395 will
impact redevelopment plans for Overtown.
-
7/5/03:
Affordable
housing crisis
in Key West
-
6/12/03
- Opa Locka
Airport
redevelopment
-
6/12/03:
Opa Locka CDC
begins
construction of 216 unit affordable rental complex
-
6/11/03:
Miami Mayor
Diaz wants
to help poor with "faith-based" groups
- 6/1/03: Carrfour develops "supportive housing" in Little Haiti
-
5/27/03:
City of
Miami's
homeowership program for Liberty City is in turmoil
- 5/26/03:Miami-Dade "HOPE VI" tears down public housing as Residents scramble to relocate
-
5/11/03:
Miami Performing Arts Center , cost overrun dispute - who should pay?
- 4/29/03: Proposal for "sales tax free zone" in Overtown - community leaders question motives
-
4/27/03:
Challenges
face low
income homeowners
-
4/17/03:
Miami-Dade
Commission to
consider spreading housing subsidy to wealthier neighborhoods.
-
4/17/03:
Miami-Dade
makes
concessions on HOPE VI project in Liberty City
-
4/7/03:
South
Florida's office
sprawl is nation's worst, study shows
-
4/1/03:
Martin Luther
King Ec.
Dev. Corp. brings Rev. King's daughter for kickoff campaign
-
3/20/03:
"Urban
Summit" announced
to help envision future of Miami's Black neighborhoods
-
3/18/03:
Controversial
historical
designation becomes battleground in fight over proposed Little Haiti
Park
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3/9/03:
Group opposes
massive
redevelopent plan for Liberty City
-
3/8/03:
Program helps
Haitian
American women become etrepreneurs.
-
3/3/03:
The "30/30"
plan would
redirect housing dollars to serve lower income groups
-
2/20/03:
More
controversy over
proposed Little Haiti park
-
2/19/03:
Revelopment
proposed for
entire length of Broward's U.S. 441 corridor
- 2/11/03: President's tax cuts will destroy use of affordable housing tax credits
-
2/11/03:
Will Miami's
new arts
center actually revive decrepit neighborhood? Skeptics abound.
-
2/11/03:
Palm Beach
County tries
to get a grip on affordable housing
-
2/7/03:
Opponents of
Miami Dade
HOPE VI gain allies
-
2/6/03:
HOPE VI
project at Scott
Homes (Miami Dade County) neighbors at odds
-
2/05/03:
Land grab for
controversial Little Haiti park could cost triple commissioner's
estimate
-
2/04/03:
Federal
funding for
public housing severely slashed
-
2/4/03:
The next
preservation
challenge: expiring LIHTC properties
-
2/3/03:
The Coconut
Grove
Collaborative - smart growth approach for low income community
-
1/30/03:
Micro loan
program for
small business opens in Miami
-
1/21/03:
"Living
Cities"
initiative to channel funds to CDCs in Overtown and E. Little Havana
-
1/20/03:
HOPE VI has
had mixed
results in benefiting public housing
-
12/19/02:
Opa Locka
CDC lures jet
manufacturing plant that will create 1000 new jobs
-
12/18/02:
City of
Miami Fails to
Adhere to its Consolidated Plan.
-
12/18/02:
Community
Reinvestment
Act at 25: Reforming an Almost Perfect Law
-
12/13/03:
Efforts to
recall Miami
City Commissioner Arthur Teele Jr.
-
12/12/02:
Miami's
56-acre Buena
Vista rail yard to yield 3,000 homes; retail stores to follow
-
12/11/02:
Miami-Dade
NHS creates
secondary market for Surtax loans
-
12/6/02:
Ambitious
park plan is
dividing Little Haiti
-
12/2/02:
Goulds, a
Black
community in south Miami-Dade, becomes poorer. Incorporation an option.
-
11/25/02:
Report Finds
30 % Jump
In Number Of Families Spending Over Half Their Income On Housing
- 11/14/02: Developers snatch up property fronting Miami River - historic neighborhoods hurt
-
11/14/02:
Miami plans
to seek
state OK to offer tax breaks to condo developers
-
11/08/02:
Hollywood
offers $1
million to CDCs for low-income housing development
-
11/7/2:
"New Markets"
Tax Credit
Draws a Flood of Applicants
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11/4/02:
Miami-Dade's
Northside
Shopping Center purchased
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10/25/02:
Update and
overview of
Miami-Dade's homeless program
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10/24/02:
Affordable
apartments
being built at two Metrorail stations
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10/24/02:
HUD freezes
City of
Miami community development funding because of screw-ups
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10/18/02
- Tax credit
program
spurs development of affordable rental housing
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10/17/02:
Construction
begins on
affordable housing at two Miami-Dade MetroRail Stops
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10/10/02:
Stable
neighborhoods
can "ascend" by concentrating on quality of life; - Bernard Zyscovich
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10/8/02:
Hallendale's
historic
black community being revitalized
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10/7/02:
City of Miami
not
implementing "homeownership zones" mandated in its Consolidated Plan
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9/25/02:
Miamians
grapple with
poverty, Mayor announces initiative for jobs, better salaries
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9/19/02:The
Affordable
Housing
Crunch in Miami Dade County
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9/13/02:
Income
guarantee
proposal is "feasible"
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9/11/02:
What is the
answer to
affordability?
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9/5/02:
Collins Center
about to
decide on spending of revitalization dollars
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8/28/02:
Research
shows little
improvement in housing affordability
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8/27/02:
Crowds mob
intake center
for low cost housing
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8/23/02:
The answer to
affordability, denser development.
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8/22/02:
Section 8
vouchers being
used for homebuyer mortgage payments
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8/20/02:
The U.S. has
no national
Housing Policy (Opinion by mayor of Boston)
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8/19/02:
The battle
over the
future of the Redlands
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8/16/02:
Del Rey Beach
low income
neighborhoods benefit from redevelopment plan
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8/15/02:
Problems in
the
administration of the Overtown CRA
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8/11/02:
Candidates
are given
tour of Miami-Dade's poorest neighborhoods
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7/25/02:
Predatory
lending
education campaign kicked off
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7/23/02-
Miami-Dade's
HOPE VI
redevelopment program for Liberty City criticized
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7/19/02:
Lauderdale
begins
revitalization of blighted northwest
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7/18/02
: As Bayside's
black
retailers dwindle, mall's minority foundation draws critics
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7/12/02:
Article on
Micro
Business USA
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7/8/02:
Regional
transportation
authority gains popularity , Free fares proposed
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7/8/02:
Governments
push harder
to bring contaminated properties to tax rolls
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6-28-02:
Miami City
Commission
debates future of CRA
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6/20/02:
City of
Miami's
"Homeownership Zone" program
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6/14/02:
Commission
OK's renewal
plans for Biscayne - FEC Corridor
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6/14/02:
Sprawl
fraudulently
labeled "New Urbanism" in California
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6/13/02:
Outline of
renewal plan
for Biscayne - FEC Corridor
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6/12/02:
Miami-Dade
Inclusionary
Housing Task Force Issues Report
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6/11/02:
HUD puts out
order for
freeze on City of Miami Land Acquisition Funding
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6/2/02:
Housing agency
under
scrutiny over vacancies
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6/2/02:
Dade's public
housing
slowly being integrated
- 6/1/02:Low Income Neighborhoods have declined since Andrew 10 years ago
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5/31/02:
Huge
development
approved west of Miami-Dade "Urban Development Boundary"
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5/24/02:
Home costs
outpace
income in Miami Dade
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5/19/02:
Urban
Removal?
Miami-Dade Housing Agency's secret plan for Liberty City revealed.
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5/19/02:
Conflict at
the raw edge
of gentrification (Overtown - Parkwest)
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4/30/02:
Tri-county
transit plan
in jeopardy over Miami-Dade demands
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4/30/02:
Trade zone
battle stalls
Wynwood redevelopment
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4/29/02:
Relocation of
Camillus
House into Overtown opposed by residents
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4/18/02:
"Smart
Growth" strategy
adopted for declining area of N. Miami Beach
- 4/18/02: Proposal to use Empowerment Zone funds to lure businesses to Omni area.
- 4/18/02: Poor areas need better public transportation.
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4/18/02:
Segregation-era black
hotel designated a historic entity Hampton House may be saved
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3/30/02:
Uproar over
plans to
relocate Camillus House in Overtown
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3/14/02:
Little Haiti
Housing
Association's "Intel Computer Clubhouse"
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3/13/02:
New Markets
Tax Credit
Applications Being Accepted
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3/13/02:
Last West SW
Dade land
to be developed, Its time to start revitalziaing decaying urban areas
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3/13/02:
The history
of community
development in Miami-Dade County
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3/13/02:
The history
of community
development in Palm Beach County
- 3/11/02: Court Ruling Puts a Halt to Zoning Variances in Older Neighorhoods
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2/21/02:
Business
expansion in
Liberty City Empowerment Zone
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2/19/02:
Demolition of
public
housing units leaves residents homeless
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2/15/02:
Miami Dade
NHS Offers
New Financing for Low Income Homebuyers
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2/9/02:
New
development projects
being undertaken in the "Black Grove"
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2/8/02:
Miami Dade
vows to oppose
cuts to Empowerment Zone by U.S.
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2/7/02:
Miami-Dade
building
permit process still a time consuming and costly barrier for small
developers
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1/29/02: should
county
designate CDC's to develop transit oriented housing
at MetroRail stations?
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1/26/02:
Miami Dade
County Holds
"Economic Summit" Amid Slowdown.
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1/26/02:
Recomendations of
Miami-Dade "Economic Summit"
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1/24/02:
Jeb Bush
proposes to gut
affordable housing!! - Coalition proposes alternative
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1/22/02:
Funding plan
for transit
project in works -Proposal may call for `penny tax'
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1/10/02:
Miami
considers 100% tax
breaks on new construction
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12/13/01:
New transit
tax
recommended to help inner city residents have access to jobs
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11/21/01:
City of
Miami has
nation's highest rate of poverty
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11/21/01:
Housing
costs are
outrunning income growth in Palm Beach County
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11/21/01:
51 percent
in
Miami-Dade were born in other nations
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11/12/01:
79th Street
Corridor
Initiative plans for revitalization of community
- 11/12/01: Unincorporated Areas of Broward pay Disproportionately Higher Taxes
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11/08/01:
The Miami
River
Commission: upper river meeting business' concerned over residential
projects
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10/21/01:
Half-billion
targeted
for City of Miami capital projects
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10/21/01:
Homestead
Air Force
Base land recommended for eco-tourism
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10/10/01:
Little Haiti
Housing
Association and Intel announce new computer clubhouse
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9/24/01:
Patience,
Persistence
Bring Success to Base Redevelopment in Key West
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9/20/01:
Changes in
building
permit process offer time-saving options
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9/7/01:
Lawsuit filed
over
Miami-Dade Public Housing policies in Liberty City
- 9/5/01: Bulldozer turns Grove cottages into scrap heap
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8/26/01:
The New
Markets Tax
Credit Program: Moving Mainstream Capital to Developing Communities
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8/22/01:
City of Miami
Beach
Seeking Proposals for a Section 202 Project Sponsor.
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7/31/01:
Miami Herald
editorial
faults Broward County's CDBG spending
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7/29/01:
Money for
Broward cities
is under scrutiny. Critics: poor areas should get more
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7/29/01:
Brownfields
stifle
development. Builders consider polluted property a costly burden
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7/26/01:
Land swap in
the works
to build downtown charter school
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7/25/01:
Census shows
S.
Florida's Hispanics have become much more diverse
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7/18/01:
FIU study
recommends
significant reforms in Miami-Dade community development programs
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7/18/01:
U.S. HUD
releases
assessment of Miami-Dade CDBG program
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7/11/01:Penelas
unveils poverty
plan. Mayor to appoint economic officer
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7/11/01:
Builders win
right to
choose project inspectors
- 7/6/01: Miami-Dade must spend most of its current $35.2 million CDBG grant by October 31
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7/5/01:
County permitting by affidavit under fire from architectural institute
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6/27/01:
Probe of City
of Miami
funded Housing Rehab.
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6/13/01:
Knight
Foundation Awards
Funding to Redevelop Overtown
- 5/28/01: Miami Dade CDCs - An Outline of Accomplishments
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5/23/01:
Dimensions of
the
Affordable Housing Crisis -
5/6/01:
Miami-Dade
County HOPE VI
Runs Into Problems
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4/8/01:
City of Miami
Census
Count: Brickell bursting at seams; black residents abandoning city
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4/6/01:
Collins Center
investment
fund to kick-start redevelopment in inner-city neighborhoods
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3/20/01:
Affordable
Housing
Crisis: Opening of Section 8 Applications Draw Huge Crowds
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1/26/01:
Miami-Dade
Commission to
consider bond to rebuild decrepit innercity infrastructure
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12/10/00:
Miami-Dade
County
Audits of CDCs flawed.
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6/6/01:
CDC lead
"Healthier
Communities" Initaitve in Chicago
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3/3/01:
Miami-Dade
Ordinance
Would Allow Developers to Inspect own Jobs.
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1/27/01:
Miami-Dade
County
proposes self building-inspection
- 1/7/01: Baseball stadiums bolster downtowns only when part of a larger revitalization effort
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12/10/00:
Wynwood CEDC Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against City of Miami.
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12/8/00:
St Agnes CDC gets Empowerment Zone grant