In Miami, a tangled tale of lost public housing
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The US is set to take control of a local agency amid charges that millions in public money were wasted or stolen.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Founded in the 1920s as a fantasyland of Mediterranean architecture, this affluent Miami suburb, one of the nation's first planned communities, has a long-standing reputation for zealous aesthetic policing, ruling over everything from hedge heights to what colors residents may...
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The city wants slum dwellers in apartments, but demolitions have left thousands homeless.
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From floating houses to city seals on the loose, Floridians salvage stories from debris.
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By Jennifer Lebovich, The Miami Herald  Dec. 17--A development company wants to build a 29-story condominium project on Hallandale Beach Boulevard, but first it wants to answer the concerns of neighboring residents.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. - Their homes are in ruin, many have only the shirts on their backs...
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By Rebecca Dellagloria, The Miami Herald  Feb. 11--More than a year after Homestead lost a county permit to dig for fill dirt at a city-owned lake, officials have come to an agreement with Miami-Dade to reinstate the permit.
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The ninth floor of the Miami-Dade pretrial detention facility is dubbed the "forgotten floor." Here, inmates with the most severe mental illnesses are incarcerated until they're ready to appear in court.
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Brooklynâs Foreclosure Prevention Project has been so inundated with calls from those in trouble with mortgage bills that it had to stop taking them.
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MIAMIâThe most scrutinized, analyzed and hotly contested piece of US electoral real estate has been returned to the political stone age by Mother Nature.
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By Brian Skoloff  Associated Press  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A mile offshore from this city's high- rise condos and spring-break bars lie as many as 2 million old tires, strewn across the ocean floor -- a white-walled, steel- belted monument to good intentions gone awry.
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By The Miami Herald  Feb. 18--Despite challenges facing the Miami-Dade County Housing Agency, a federal takeover, or making the agency an independent entity, would be premature. Takeover talk is coming from Orlando Cabrera, assistant secretary of public housing for the U.S.
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By Christina Kent, The Miami Herald  Sep. 18--An incomplete roof job and heavy rains left about a hundred residents of a North Miami condominium without a place to stay Sunday night, according to WFOR CBS 4.
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The house Diana Hennigh wanted had been repossessed by a bank months earlier. It stood empty. It needed work. It was in a Prince William County neighborhood teeming with for-sale signs.
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At the end of a hurricane season that left much of Florida in ruins, thousands of families remain displaced, with new requests for housing every day.
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By Laura Morales, The Miami Herald  Sep. 10--Miami's Historic and Environmental Preservation board has handed Grove residents opposed to a Home Depot in their neighborhood another small victory.
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The case of a small development in Southwest Florida illustrates the important role that real estate investors played in driving a housing boom over the edge.