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Renters in Lake Worth Beach are fighting for more legal protections, urging city officials to pass a tenants' bill of rights similar to Miami-Dade County
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Florida’s spiraling housing affordability crisis has sent protestors to the streets across the state.
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The Florida Department of Children and Families is poised to stop taking applications for a federally funded program that provides rental and utility assistance for low-income and unemployed residents.
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Rent continues to skyrocket. How long will that last? Also, it’s National Stuttering Awareness Week, and we’re talking with the Miami Speech Institute. Plus, Richard Blanco shares with us how South Florida has impacted his poetry.
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The federal rental aid program expects to distribute the rest of its money by mid-summer. Some cities have already run out of funding, pushing eviction filings higher than before the pandemic.
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The jury selection for Nikolas Cruz's sentencing trial remains underway. Plus, an affordable housing crisis was declared in Miami-Dade County and cut bonuses for public schools in Broward may bring legal action.
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Hialeah may be a blueprint for a solution to the rental crises, sea rise increase set to accelerate in 30 years, and evidence has been found showing tourist cruises to Cuba may have been illegal.
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The state has accepted a second round of federal funding to continue its OUR Florida program, which has already distributed more than $858 million in assistance.
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Some landlords got hurt by tenants who took advantage of eviction bans during the pandemic. Now they can't get any help from a massive $47 billion federal rental assistance program.
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The city still has about $600,000 available to help renters pay back their landlords.
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By a 5-4 vote, the court left in place the nationwide moratorium on evictions put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The moratorium is set to expire on July 31.
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This post will be updated today, Tuesday, June 15, and through the week with the latest information on COVID-19 in South Florida.