"We’re making a little dent in this huge need."
-- David Rothenstein
Two years after it was first approved, the controversial Live Local Act, a state law designed to fast-track housing construction across Florida by overriding local density limits, is about to deliver its first project in Miami-Dade County.
It’s not what you may be expecting.
Instead of the splashy, zoning-busting high-rise proposals that have set off political and court battles across South Florida, Beacon Hill at Princeton is modest in scale and scope: Three-story garden-style buildings with a total of 112 rental apartments, all of them affordable to people making a middle-class income.
Read more at the Miami Herald