Miami-Dade Public Housing & Community Development
Alex R. Ballina,
Director
701 NW 1st Court, 16th Floor
Miami, FL
(786) 469-4100
(786) 795-2539
By The numbers
Public Housing Units 9733
Vouchers 18305
Total Units 26224
Latest News
11.7.23
Members Making News
From WLRN Miami:
It’s a hard time to be an artist in Miami.
Fewer music venues, like Churchill’s, are around for up-and-coming musicians to practice their craft. Rents for artist studios are like rents for the rest of us — they’re going up.
Wynwood is lost as an artist enclave. The next areas,...
4.18.23
CLPHA Member Update, Members Making News
18 Members Invited to Accept Stability Voucher Awards
Today, HUD announced a second round of CoC grants and Stability Vouchers to communities to address unsheltered homelessness, adding to the first set of grant awards announced in February. The awards include $171.2 million in grants for 115...
4.18.23
Members Making News
From Islander Media Group, Inc.:
"Home" is the perfect setting for Miami-Dade County's new director of the Public Housing and Community Development Department.
Alex R. Ballina was officially introduced during the recent Board of County Commission meeting by Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava,...
3.7.23
Wednesday, March 8 | 1:00 p.m. ET
Special Purpose Vouchers can be used strategically as part of a community’s plan to end homelessness. Tomorrow's webinar hosted by the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) will review all Special Purpose Voucher Programs and new resources like the...
1.6.23
CLPHA Member Update, Members Making News
CLPHA Members Receive One-Fourth of All Awards
HUD announced the award of $24.7 million to 98 PHAs for providing non-elderly persons with disabilities with permanent affordable housing. The assistance will be provided through the Section 811 Mainstream Housing Choice Voucher Program, and...
12.5.22
Members Making News
From the Miami Herald:
Julio Banegas, 86, spent the Miami summer relying on the breeze to stay cool in a second-floor apartment because his landlord, the federal government, rented the unit without air-conditioning.
“It got tremendously hot,” Banegas said in Spanish on Monday. “I used lots of...
10.6.21
Members Making News
From the Miami Herald:
Miami-Dade County officials gathered Friday to hail their success in spending $60.8 million in federal emergency rental assistance, which they said has translated to helping more than 6,000 area families stay in their homes.
The assistance helped provide a bridge as...
6.9.21
Members Making News
From Miami Today:
A plan for new construction of an attainable mixed-income residential development called Paseo del Rio earned the praise of a City of Miami review board.
The seven-story, 182-unit building is planned for county-owned property at 1401 NW Seventh St., across from Marlins ballpark...
11.5.20
Members Making News
A $58M affordable housing development for seniors is underway in trendy Allapattah (Miami-Dade PHCD)
From the Miami Herald:
Seniors seeking affordable housing near art, barbecue and the Health District can soon look to Miami’s up-and-coming Allapattah neighborhood.
The Downtown Miami-based Interurban, a branch of Integra Investments, and the Sunrise-headquarterd property management company...
1.8.20
Members Making News
On December 31, 2019 HUD announced more than $79 million in Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) grants to nearly 700 public housing authorities nationwide. FSS grants help public housing authorities hire service coordinators who connect public housing residents with local programs and services with the...
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