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While Miami remains without an affordable housing masterplan, cheap housing continues to disappear, a devastating situation in a municipality where the median household income is $39,000 a year. Edward “Ned” Murray, associate director of the Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center, said the rising cost of living is making it impossible for Miamians to stay in Miami. “That,” he said, “is why so many workers have migrated out of Miami.”
Just 18% of households in Palm Beach County can afford the median price of a home, according to an assessment by the Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center at Florida International University. The numbers are even bleaker to the south, where about 15% of Broward County households and 9% of Miami-Dade County can afford the median home price.
FIU researcher Nika Zyryanova said before COVID-19, a quarter of a million renter households were cost-burdened, meaning they were spending more than 30 percent of their income on housing and 90 percent of renters were making less than of $35,000 dollars a year. “Renter assisted need far exceeds what is available,” Zyryanova said. “With that type of income you really can’t afford to live in Miami-Dade.”
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