Jorge Perez Speaks out on Affordable Housing

Jorge Perez spoke out today at the City of Miami Commission Meeting clearing the names of Miami city officials who purchased condos in his affordable housing projects in downtown. He and city officials were recent targets in a Herald article which criticized the actions of related and city officials alike…

1 Response to “Jorge Perez Speaks out on Affordable Housing”


  1. 1 Anonymous

    Maybe we should consider that affordable and downtown don’t belong in the same sentence. I think they should stop trying to build housing in the CBD and continue trying to build it around lower use Metrorail stations. The Allapatah station project was a rare good idea. I think it should be duplicated around Northside, Earlington Heights, MLK, Hialeah, etc… Those are the neighborhoods in which people who buy into projects would be willing to live and building in those neighborhoods might even help revitalize them a little. Whereas building projects close to the CBD will not only NOT help to revitalize that area, it might even hinder its gentrification process.

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