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As a domestic abuse survivor, I (Jessy Correa) don’t take for granted the peace of mind that comes with having a safe place to call home. After bouncing from hotel to hotel, I thought a sense of security would come when my children and I got the keys to our first apartment. However, erratic rent …
2023 in Review: Letter from the Executive Director Dear Comrades, For 24 years, Miami Workers Center has been on the frontlines, envisioning and diligently working towards an ambitious agenda to transform our broken housing ecosystem, improve worker conditions, and build a beloved community of mutual support, sisterhood and solidarity. In 2023, we had some incredible …
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Wednesday, June 7, 2022Media contact: Lizzie Suarez lizzie@miamiworkerscenter.org, 305-759-8717 (ext 109) Miami, FL – Tenants and families at risk of eviction and displacement in Miami-Dade due to rental price gouging, housing discrimination, and inaccess to affordable housing will be gathering on Saturday, June 11th at Joseph Caleb Center for a “Tenant Assembly”, …
By VERONICA EGUI BRITO • Published April 1, 2022 The housing construction deficit in Hialeah hurts residents’ quality of life, and is emblematic of the larger Miami-Dade County home affordability crisis exacerbated by the pandemic. The cost of renting and buying homes becomes more difficult by the day for people in this city, forcing painful displacements and eviction …
For decades, federal, state and local government policies reinforced a system of residential segregation in South Florida. By Phil Prazan • Published March 1, 2022 The impact of those policies can still be seen decades later where and how people live. Nadege Green grew up in Little Haiti and graduated from Miami Northwestern Senior High School. NBC 6 …
Past Neighborhood Segregation Still Shapes Where People Live in Miami Read More »
BY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ ORTIZ On Tuesday — International Women’s Day — more than 100 people gathered outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center in downtown Miami to demand new rights for tenants — such as mandating landlords to give a “fair” notice before increasing their rent. The crowd also sought added protections for domestic workers, …
Over 100 demand new rights for tenants in downtown Miami protest Read More »
By the Miami Herald Editorial Board Here’s the not-so-new news: Florida law leans heavily in favor of landlords and property rights. So there’s no cavalry coming to the rescue of tenants facing jaw-dropping rent increases in South Florida. There’s very little that governments can do under state statute to protect renters from price gouging. But …
Can my landlord raise my rent that much? Florida renters do — and don’t — have rights Read More »
by Omar Rodríguez Ortiz and Devoun Cetoute Many tenants of an apartment complex in Hialeah could become homeless as soon as next month if their new landlord insists on increasing monthly rent by up to $650, the group said Wednesday evening at a protest in the building’s parking lot. Residents have seen smaller increases before, …
Old mattresses, discarded sofas and torn cardboard boxes are piled high in the street. For the children who run and skip around their trailer homes at Soar Park in Miami’s Little River, this is a playground. For the rats and possums that dwell here, this is home. The two mobile home communities are called Sunnyland and …
They lived with flooding, raccoons and trash heaps. Then they had enough Read More »
Two years ago, Julio got a job painting apartment buildings in Miami. He was promised $15 an hour and scheduled to work 10 hours per day. Almost immediately after Julio started, he noticed something fishy with his paychecks. He got paid for one week of work, then two weeks went by and he got paid …
It’s Shockingly Easy For Your Boss To Steal From You And Get Away With It Read More »