The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative

The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) is a HUD program designed to help communities reimagine and revitalize distressed public and assisted housing neighborhoods. Through comprehensive planning and implementation funding, CNI supports the redevelopment of high-quality, mixed-income housing while also strengthening schools, expanding access to supportive services, improving safety, and enhancing overall neighborhood quality of life.

Goulds / Cutler Manor – Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant Miami-Dade County was awarded a $40 million CNI Implementation Grant to support the comprehensive redevelopment of the Cutler Manor assisted housing site in the Goulds community. The grant will help transform Cutler Manor from 218 existing units into approximately 445 mixed-income units, nearly doubling housing supply with a mix of affordable, workforce, and market-rate homes, and will leverage additional public and private investment to catalyze broader neighborhood revitalization.

Overtown / Culmer Gardens – Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami received $39.9 million in CNI Implementation Grant funding to revitalize the Culmer Place and Culmer Gardens public housing developments in Overtown. This investment will replace the existing 226 public housing units with about 1,059 mixed-income residential units and 10 affordable for-sale homes, and is part of a larger transformation strategy that leverages hundreds of millions in public and private funding to improve housing, economic opportunities, and neighborhood infrastructure.

MLK Station / Annie Coleman 16 – Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant Miami-Dade County was awarded a $500,000 CNI Planning Grant for the MLK Station neighborhood, focused on the Annie Coleman 16 public housing site and surrounding area. The planning process will guide redevelopment of the 210 existing units on the Annie Coleman site on a one-for-one basis within a future mixed-income community, and will help identify leveraged investments and partnerships to support housing, services, and neighborhood improvements.