Miami Housing Justice Agenda

Our Agenda

Our Approach

Everyone deserves to live in safe and healthy housing.

Values Vision: 

Housing is a human right that should be affordable, available, and accessible. According to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, before the pandemic, almost 40 million people were struggling to pay their rent or mortgage. This is because they worked one or more jobs or received a social security check that did not cover the already high cost of rent. As we all know, things got worse during the pandemic when people lost their jobs or could not go to work. According to the Community Justice Project, as of December 31, 2021, landlords filed over 20,000 evictions in Miami Dade County since the start of the pandemic.

Policy Solutions:

  • Establish a Right to Counsel for tenants facing eviction so they can get a lawyer
  • Repair and lien properties with significant code violations
  • Make sure that new rental homes preserved or built with public funds or land have “for-cause” eviction protections (as subsidized and public housing currently have). This limits landlords from evicting tenants for unreasonable causes.
  • Set limits on the amount of rent that landlords can charge tenants. (According to CBS Miami, rents in Miami have gone up 49.8% on average from December 2021 to December 2022. It is not necessary for any landlord to increase rent by 49.8% when their property taxes do not increase by 49.8%. Link to CBS Miami article here: https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/miami-leads-nation-rents-soar/)
  • Put money into creating 210,000 units of affordable housing in Miami Dade County by 2030, so that we end houselessness and lower rents
  • Require universal design for all homes to make them as accessible as possible to the most people

Message to Decision Makers

We want everyone in Miami to have a quality, healthy home that they can afford, and an end to the affordable housing crisis. We can achieve this by getting our county to adopt the values and policies of the Miami Housing Justice Agenda. The agenda is the product of four years of community engagement, research and best practices and was designed by a coalition of different community organizations and policy experts including Miami Homes for All, The Greater Miami Housing Alliance, Florida International University Metropolitan Center, University of Florida Shimberg Center, City of Miami Connect Capital Initiative, Homes for All National, Grassroots Global Justice, Climate Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network and Gulf South Green New Deal. Our goal is to get 1.5 Million Miami-Dade residents (half the county population) to pledge their support to the Miami Housing Justice Agenda by the year 2030.
We implore you to make this happen.

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