tag:metropolitan.fiu.edu,2011:135Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center: News Feed2024-03-12T12:34:04-04:00Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, Florida International Universityhttp://cmshared.fiu.edu/fiu-edu/_assets/images/fiu-logo.gifEnterprise Web Services, Casgroup CMSnews:60295Changes in Inflation by CityJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2024-03-12T00:00:00-04:002024-03-12T00:00:00-04:00It is easy to say the Titanic sank because it hit an iceberg. If you want a simple immediate cause—that is fine. But anybody who studies the disaster knows it is much more complex.news:60272With rising rents and low wages, how will Broward address housing affordability?Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2024-02-15T00:00:00-05:002024-02-15T00:00:00-05:00Ned Murray, associate director of the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University, first assessed Broward’s affordable housing crisis in 2018. By 2022, when he did another assessment, conditions had worsened.news:60261This Florida Mall Has Gucci, Prada … and Soon, Affordable Housing?Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2024-02-05T00:00:00-05:002024-02-05T00:00:00-05:00Miami has plenty of new rental units, but most are for the luxury market and not for the region’s service economy workers, who are employed by the hospitality, health care and retail sectors, said Ned Murray, the associate director of the Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center at Florida International University.news:60247Shopping for a new home? Buyers in Miami-Dade County may have a change of luck in 2024Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2024-01-02T00:00:00-05:002024-01-02T00:00:00-05:00Ned Murray, associate director of the Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center at Florida International University: The only good news, if there’s any good news, is prices won’t go up that much more, including rents.news:60242Florida’s Wealth Boom Yields a Windfall for the State’s CharitiesJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-12-18T00:00:00-05:002023-12-18T00:00:00-05:00“While there is a lot of optimism that the community is
coalescing around the need to solve affordable housing and
climate change issues, the solutions haven’t emerged,” said
Maria Ilcheva of the Jorge M. Perez Metropolitan Center at
Florida International University in Miramar, Florida, who’s
studied nonprofits for over a decade.news:60240Miami-based artists and arts organisations grapple with gentrificationJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-12-08T00:00:00-05:002023-12-08T00:00:00-05:00A 2018 study found that Miami had lost an average of 1,286 affordable-housing units every year since 2013 due to rising prices, developer-friendly policies, and a lack of rent control. That same year, a team of housing and research specialists and Ned Murray, associate director of the Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center at Florida International University, presented a comprehensive affordable-housing master plan.news:60233Broward cities will soon be asked to help pay for county’s affordable housing effortJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-12-06T00:00:00-05:002023-12-06T00:00:00-05:00The county didn’t fully realize until 2018 there was a crisis, Edward “Ned” Murray, associate director with the Jorge M. Perez Metropolitan Center at Florida International University, told county commissioners. The solution “has to be a countywide effort,” he said.news:60232Housing in Miami keeps rising and wages can’t keep up. Now, more people feel the squeezeJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-12-01T00:00:00-05:002023-12-01T00:00:00-05:00It’s only a matter of time before more people like Curry face the tough decision to stay or go, Murray said. “You’re saying 50% of all households are cost burdened. It’s much much higher than that. It’s only getting worse.”news:60214Miami’s Inflation Ranks Highest in the USJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-11-17T00:00:00-05:002023-11-17T00:00:00-05:00Ned Murray, the associate director of the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University, said shelter costs – which account for more than a third of the overall consumer price index – have stabilized in most metro areas but continued to increase in Miami and Tampa.news:60205Veterans make more than civilians in these South Florida citiesJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-11-08T00:00:00-05:002023-11-08T00:00:00-05:00The top 50 cities listed in the SmartAsset report – including Miami, Hialeah, and Pompano Beach – are places with large populations of working poor, said Edward "Ned" Murray, associate director of Florida International University's Jorge M. Perez Metropolitan Center.news:60201South Florida's battle to fill jobs persistsJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-11-03T00:00:00-04:002023-11-03T00:00:00-04:00“The people who are moving here, for the most part … are not employed in South Florida’s key industries. And that’s a problem,” said Edward “Ned” Murray, associate director of Florida International University’s Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center.news:60208Racial inequities in housing persist in Palm Beach. New study seeks to address itJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-11-03T00:00:00-04:002023-11-03T00:00:00-04:00When it comes to homeownership, there are wide disparities rooted in a history of discrimination and segregation, according to the FIU researchers. Only 52% of Black residents in the region own their home, compared to 59% of Hispanics and 77% of whites.news:60207$200 million, 20,000 affordable housing units: New study helps ID areas in needJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-11-02T00:00:00-04:002023-11-02T00:00:00-04:00Affordable housing programs on both local and federal levels often use a measure called area median income, or AMI, to determine where critical demand is, said Ned Murray, one of the study’s primary researchers and the associate director of FIU’s Metropolitan Center. AMI is the midpoint income distribution in a certain region; half of the households in that specific region make less than the median, and the other half of the households make more than the median income.news:60209$200 million, 20,000 affordable housing units: New study helps ID areas in needJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-11-02T00:00:00-04:002023-11-02T00:00:00-04:00Affordable housing programs on both local and federal levels often use a measure called area median income, or AMI, to determine where critical demand is, said Ned Murray, one of the study’s primary researchers and the associate director of FIU’s Metropolitan Center. AMI is the midpoint income distribution in a certain region; half of the households in that specific region make less than the median, and the other half of the households make more than the median income.news:60178Desperate seniors search for shelter as church shuts their Little Havana apartment buildingJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-10-20T00:00:00-04:002023-10-20T00:00:00-04:00“It really infuriates me, because we all saw it coming,” said Dr. Edward Murray, associate director of the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University in Miami, speaking in general about the shortage of affordable housing. He was involved in authoring an affordable housing plan in 2018 for Miami-Dade County that was never fully adopted.news:60210What you need to know about Florida's minimum wage increaseJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-10-02T00:00:00-04:002023-10-02T00:00:00-04:00Dr. Maria Ilcheva, the assistant director of the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University, said the increase is isn't enough for households to survive, especially in South Florida.news:60164Domestic violence data, based on gender, will lead to more effective policies, safer homes | OpinionJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-09-24T00:00:00-04:002023-09-24T00:00:00-04:00The newly launched Gender Equity Index (GEI), a WFMD research initiative, measures progress toward gender equity in Miami-Dade County. Based on an international model and applied locally for the first time, the GEI reflects the intersectional challenges women and girls face in each of the WFMD’s four pillars: economic mobility, health and well-being, leadership and freedom from violence.news:60137Idalia hit one of Florida's poorest areas. How could that impact an economic recovery?Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-09-05T00:00:00-04:002023-09-05T00:00:00-04:00“The population characteristics in the impacted areas might impede their ability to recover,” said Maria D. Ilcheva with FIU’s Jorge Perez Metropolitan Center.news:60112Why Miami-Dade's population is decliningJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-08-05T00:00:00-04:002023-08-05T00:00:00-04:00"Miami-Dade has always had population movement," Dr. Maria Ilcheva, Assistant Director of Planning and Operations of the Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center at FIU, says, "it's seeing an influx of residents from the North and West with much higher incomes who're able to buy properties and create businesses, making it unaffordable for many of the locals to live here at the wage levels they're currently being paid at their jobs."news:60111Miami’s status as the favorite American city for the ultrawealthy is pushing out its middle classJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-08-02T00:00:00-04:002023-08-02T00:00:00-04:00“It’s the middle class, it’s our talent base, it’s our college graduates moving out for better opportunities elsewhere,” Maria Ilcheva, the lead of census information center at Florida International University, told the Journal of the current population decrease.news:60109So long, paradise. Longtimers and natives depart for homes outside Miami-Dade CountyJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-08-01T00:00:00-04:002023-08-01T00:00:00-04:00“Broward and Palm Beach seem to be holding on. Miami-Dade right now is just viewed as this costly county and difficult place to get around,” said noted South Florida housing expert Ned Murray.news:60243Report: Miami-Dade losing more residents than gainingJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-08-01T00:00:00-04:002023-08-01T00:00:00-04:00"All this discussion about new Yorkers, or Californians moving to Miami-Dade County although correct does not offset the number of people moving out of our area," said Maria Ilcheva, a research professor for the census information center at F.I.U. She said starting from the pandemic year the exodus started.news:60110Miami Sees Its First Population Drop in DecadesJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-07-31T00:00:00-04:002023-07-31T00:00:00-04:00“It’s the middle class, it’s our talent base, it’s our college graduates moving out for better opportunities elsewhere,” said Maria Ilcheva, census information center lead at Florida International University’s Jorge M. Perez Metropolitan Center.news:60103'Beyond a crisis': As Hialeah gets more popular, residents feel pushed out by rentsJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-07-18T00:00:00-04:002023-07-18T00:00:00-04:00Ned Murray, associate director of the Jorge M. Perez Metropolitan Center at Florida International University, says rent prices in Hialeah and similar working-class areas of Miami-Dade County are on a steady rise while other cities are cooling off.news:60105DeSantis Says He Can Make the US Richer Like Florida. The Reality Is More ComplicatedJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-07-08T00:00:00-04:002023-07-08T00:00:00-04:00“If you’re a worker, it’s hard to have quality of life right now,” Murray said. “There is a lot of job growth and low unemployment, but most of the employment is in the low-wage service sector.”news:60084‘A huge crisis’: How spending millions will add affordable housing in South FloridaJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-06-18T00:00:00-04:002023-06-18T00:00:00-04:00“This is a huge crisis,” said Dr. Edward Murray, associate director with the Jorge M. Perez Metropolitan Center at Florida International University of the study’s results. “It’s a catastrophe.”news:60082Live Local Act enables developers to build bigger and tallerJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-06-08T00:00:00-04:002023-06-08T00:00:00-04:00Edward “Ned” Murray, associate director of the Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center at Florida International University, said the state Legislature should have offered some financial assistance for cities to accommodate large projects with affordable and workforce housing, instead of just running roughshod over their zoning codes.news:60075New state law will help solve South Florida rent price crisis, real estate expert saysJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-05-04T00:00:00-04:002023-05-04T00:00:00-04:00Edward "Ned" Murray, associate director of Florida International University's Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center, is not as optimistic as Johnson. He said there might not be enough incentives for a developer to keep 40% of a building's units as workforce housing for the next 30 years.news:60074Impact of affordable workforce housing law still being assessed by developers, expertsJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-05-03T00:00:00-04:002023-05-03T00:00:00-04:00Edward "Ned" Murray, associate director of the Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center at Florida International University, said the legislation is certainly a "big deal." But with rises in land costs, insurance costs and insurance rates, it isn't clear if the incentives will be enough for builders to construct more affordable housing.news:60055Miami-Dade County population falls 1%, U.S. Census saysJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-04-14T00:00:00-04:002023-04-14T00:00:00-04:00There has been a years long trend of Miami-Dade moving northward, said Maria Ilcheva, assistant director of planing and operations at FIU's Metropolitan Center. But this trend has been exasperated as the cost of living rises in an area that primarily offers lower wages compared to other labor markets, she added.news:60018Florida’s Affordable Housing Bill Is a Start But Won’t be Enough: ExpertsJorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Centerhttp://metropolitan.fiu.eduCopyright © 2011, FIU, Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center2023-03-31T00:00:00-04:002023-03-31T00:00:00-04:00“In doing so, you help sustain this policy effort because one year of relief is positive, but it’s not going to be enough to really move the needle over the coming years,” said Edward Murray, associate director of Florida International University’s Jorge M. Perez Metropolitan Center, which studies housing policies.