Inside the developer gold rush to update Miami-Dade’s aging public housing

A collection of two-story buildings with orange stucco walls sits on a quiet lot along Miami’s busy Northeast Second Avenue. A few blocks west, single-story white homes with air-conditioning units wedged in windows and clotheslines in courtyards cluster underneath Interstate 95.  These are some of Miami’s public housing complexes, built from the 1940s to the 1970s along a mile stretch in the Little River neighborhood, and now primed for their next era. Over the next eight years, Swerdlow Group plans over 20 new buildings, ranging from 15 to 27 stories, with 5,730 units: 314 replacing all existing public housing units […]

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