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“Each municipality has a responsibility to provide for its own citizens and its own economy,” said Ned Murray, associate director of Florida International University’s Jorge M. Perez Metropolitan Center. “We just don’t see that happening to the levels that are necessary.”
In 2018, about 57.4% of Royal Palm Beach and 56.7% of Wellington renters were "overwhelmed" with housing costs, meaning they spent at least half and even as much as two-thirds of their income on housing, according to a 2021 study by FIU's Metropolitan Center, which provides policy solutions to public, private and nonprofit organizations in South Florida.
Williams officially started on her public service career at Florida International University, eventually earning a master’s degree in public administration. There she met Ned Murray, a housing expert and associate director of the university’s Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center.
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