Housing Crisis

Cutler Bay town leaders and residents were protesting plans to turn a hotel into affordable housing for formerly homeless people.

Cutler Bay town leaders and residents were protesting plans to turn a hotel into affordable housing for formerly homeless people. NBC6’s Heather Walker reports

The lack of affordable housing is being felt more than ever in South Florida. Miami-Dade is considering an alternative solution: tiny homes.

NBC6’s Myriam Masihy shows us some affordable housing options gaining popularity in South Florida

Some of the biggest increases are in West Coast cities such as Sacramento and Portland, Oregon. Numbers are also up about 30% in South Dakota and Prince George’s County, Maryland, and 15% in Asheville, North Carolina.

Jackie Nespral spoke with Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava to discuss the housing crisis still impacting South Florida.

The housing crisis continues to spiral and inflation reached a 40-year high this summer. Experts say short-term rentals aren’t helping.

Housing has long been a major benefit for service members, a subsidy to salaries that trail the private sector. But, amid record-breaking spikes in rent, service members and housing activists say the Department of Defense has neglected its commitment to help military families find affordable homes.

NBC 6’s Jackie Nespral sat down with Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava to learn more about her proposal to cut property taxes by one percent and how she plans to take on he housing crisis.

The United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Marcia Fudge, called Miami is at the “epicenter” of the housing crisis in America. Many renters and homebuyers in South Florida know that’s true. Secretary Fudge spoke in Miami over the past two days, telling community leaders the federal government has neglected affordable housing programs for decades and the Biden...

NBC 6’s Phil Prazan reports on a trip by Biden’s HUD Secretary Fudge to South Florida to discuss affordable housing