April 30, 2024

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Florida's quote of the day

| 4/17/2024

"We don’t make enough money for some, and we make too much money for others."

-- Bonnie Riley

After hearing from members of an influential religious group about the difficulties of finding affordable housing in South Florida, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava endorsed a program to subsidize loans for property owners willing to rent efficiencies to low-income tenants as well a series of other steps aimed at addressing skyrocketing rents.

The proposals were laid out by People Acting for Community Together, or PACT, a nonprofit interfaith group made up of some 40 churches, synagogues and mosques in Miami-Dade that each year presses public officials to embrace their plans to dealing with some of Miami’s most urgent social problems.

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