Housing Affordability Tracker

As a part of Mayor Daniella Levine Cava's Building Blocks Housing Summit, the Department of Public Housing and Community Development and The University of Miami Office of Civic and Community Engagement partnered to create the Housing Affordability Tracker. The tool is meant to monitor progress toward the Mayor's ambitious goal of 18,000 new and rehabilitated affordable/workforce housing units. These units, all intended to be in financial closing by the end of 2023, are a key component of Mayor Cava's Building Blocks for Housing Affordability Program.

Get Started

To get started, use the filters to identify and track affordable and workforce housing units in Miami-Dade County, proposed after November 2020, by status (pre-development, planning, under construction, completed and RFP) by type (new, renovation and new and renovation) and by location (zip code, commission district and municipality).

Note: The Housing Affordability Tracker is best viewed on larger screens, such as those on a desktop computer. Visit the previous housing affordability tracker for data on affordable and workforce housing identifed as part of the 2019's “Closing in on 10,000 - A Housing Summit."

Definitions

Planning Stage: Planning for the development is underway by the County and/or developer. Site control has been secured
Request for Proposal (RFP): A formal written solicitation issued by the County for the purpose of seeking response(s) from prospective developers. A development is in this stage if the RFP is in draft form, has been issued to developers, or is in negotiations or approval process
Pre-Development: Pre-Construction activities are underway, which may include environmental assessment, project design, and identification of financing for the development
Under Construction: Construction activities are underway
Construction Completed: Construction activities completed

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Project Overview

The University of Miami Office of Civic and Community Engagement (UM CCE) and the Miami-Dade County Office of Public Housing and Community Development (PHCD) worked from February-June 2022 to create the Housing Affordability Tracker, in advance of the Building Blocks Housing Summit on June 30, 2022.

The Housing Summit was hosted to identify creative solutions to Miami-Dade County's housing affordability crisis, which Mayor Levine Cava announced in April 2022. This Housing Affordability Tracker is intended to identify and track the status of proposed affordable and workforce housing units in accordance with the Mayor's ambitious goal of 18,000 new and rehabilitated units in the pipeline by 2023.

The data that was compiled for this Housing Affordability Tracker includes proposed pipeline developments providing affordable housing and/or workforce housing that were initiated or proposed after November 2020. Visit the previous housing affordability tracker for data on affordable and workforce housing identifed as part of the 2019's “Closing in on 10,000 - A Housing Summit."

All information on development status, number of units, funding sources, and developer teams is accurate to the best of our findings as of June 1, 2022. UM CCE is not responsible for any changes to project timing, development status, affordability provisions, unit counts, or project cancellations. Any additional affordable/workforce housing developments in the pipeline that may not have been captured in the tracker can be sent to [email protected] for further review and consideration for future inclusion.
- Area Median Income (AMI): AMI is the household income for the median – or middle – household in a region. The 2022 AMI for Miami-Dade County is $68,300
- Affordable Housing: Defined as units that are affordable to those earning 60 percent or less of AMI
- Workforce Housing: Defined as units that are affordable to those earning greater than 60 percent of AMI up to 140 percent of AMI
- Cost-Burdened: Defined by the department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as those who pay more than 30 percent of their income for housing and may have difficulty affording necessities such as food, clothing, transportation and medical care
- Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD): RAD was created by HUD as a powerful tool to preserve and improve public housing properties and address the $26 billion dollar nationwide backlog of deferred maintenance. RAD units remain permanently affordable to low-income households
- State Housing Initiatives Partnership Program (SHIP): Florida Housing administers SHIP to provide funds to local governments as an incentive to create partnerships that produce and preserve affordable homeownership and multifamily housing. The program was designed to serve very low, low and moderate-income families
- State Apartment Incentive Loan Program (SAIL): The State Apartment Incentive Loan program (SAIL) provides low-interest loans on a competitive basis to affordable housing developers each year. This money often serves to bridge the gap between the development's primary financing and the total cost of the development
- Housing Credits: The Housing Credit (HC) program provides for-profit and nonprofit organizations with a dollar-for-dollar reduction in federal tax liability in exchange for providing equity financing for the rehabilitation (with or without acquisition), or new construction of low and very low-income rental housing units. A Housing Credit allocation to a development can be used for 10 consecutive years once the development is placed in service and is designed to subsidize either 30 percent (the 4-percent tax credit) or 70 percent (the 9-percent tax credit) of the low-income unit costs in a development
- The Multifamily Mortgage Revenue Bond program (MMRB): Uses both taxable and tax-exempt bonds to provide below market-rate loans to non-profit and for-profit developers who set aside a certain percentage of their apartment units for low-income families
In addition to information provided by PHCD, UM CCE conducted research using a variety of resources to identify potential affordable housing development in the pipeline.

Municipal:
- Miami-Dade County Office of Public Housing and Community Development
- Miami-Dade County Office of Regulatory and Economic Resources
- Miami-Dade County Building Department
- Hialeah Public Housing Authority
- Homestead Public Housing Authority
Municipal Government Websites, Including Commission Agendas and Reports:
- City of Miami
- City of Hialeah
- City of Homestead
- City of North Miami
- City of Opa-locka
- City of Miami Beach
Community Revitalization Agencies:
- Omni
- Homestead
- Southeast Overtown
Real Estate Development Company Websites
- Related Urban Housing Trust Group
- Pinnacle
- Shoma
- AHS Residential
- Prestige Companies
State of Florida Resources:
- Florida Housing Finance Corporation
- Shimberg Center for Housing Research and Policy, University of Florida
Publications
- Construction Journal
- El Nuevo Herald
- Florida YIMBY
- Local Community Websites and Blogs
- Miami Herald
- Miami Today
- Multi-Family Housing Journal
- South Florida Business Journal
- The Next Miami
- The Real Deal South Florida
University of Miami Office of Civic and Community Engagement

Robin Bachin, Ph.D.

Project Director

Jen Posner
Project Manager

Marisa Hightower

Project Administrator

Chelsea Lafrance

Research and Data Associate

Ana Villamizar, AmeriCorps VISTA
Data Visualization Associate

Kinaret Ben-Knaan
Research Librarian - Data

Matthew Ellis-Ramirez
Research Assistant

Noah Frankel

Research Assistant

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We manage more than 8,000 public housing apartments and provide financial help through the federal Section 8 program to more than 18,000 families.

Our support services include assisted living facilities for the elderly and self-sufficiency programs for our tenants.

We rely on federal and state grant programs to fund our programs. We work closely with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) on our public housing and, with the State of Florida, the development of affordable housing.

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