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Last year, the Miami- Dade County Commission shot down a plan that would have forced local developers to include some affordable apartments in every new project. Commissioner Javier Souto claimed the idea was "social engineering," one of the most profoundly stupid things said in South Florida politics this decade. According to the study, almost two-thirds of Miami's poor are stuck spending more than half of their income on rent or living in roach-infested hellholes. "These households are defined as very low-income renters who do not receive government housing assistance and who paid more than one-half of their income for rent, lived in severely inadequate conditions , or both," HUD's researchers write. "High rents in proportion to renter incomes remain dominant among households with worst-case needs, leaving these renters with substantial, unmet need for affordable housing." Larger cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, techn...

September 27, 2005 | By Joe Newman, Sentinel Staff Writer When Lesley Brown got her first job out of college, she figured it was time to move out of the cramped house she shared with three other people. But finding something Brown, 22, could afford near the Lockheed Martin facility on Sand Lake Road was another matter. At $950 a month, even a small one-bedroom apartment was out of reach for the University of Central Florida graduate . At that price, she would have been spending much more than a third of her salary on rent. "I was definitely surprised by the prices," Brown said. "The market soared out of my reach." Finding an affordable rental in Central Florida is becoming a Herculean challenge. Two of every five renters in Orange, Seminole, Polk and Volusia counties spent 35 percent or more of their monthly income on housing in 2004, according to a recent U.S. census report. The bureau did not track Osceola County . More than half of all renters in Orange, Semi...

When most people think about renting, they think about apartments. An apartment is a dwelling that is owned by a landlord and leased to a tenant for the purposes of earning rental income . Condominiums, or condos for short, are dwellings owned by individuals which collectively comprise a homeowner’s association. What some people may not realize is, condos can also be rented and renters seeking housing may have the option to choose between a condo and an apartment. What you may be thinking is, what’s the better option for renters, a condo or an apartment? Both condos and apartments have benefits, and at first glance, the two may seem to be a lot alike. There are, however, differences in condo living vs. apartment living. Today I will discuss a few of the benefits of each type of rental dwelling, and what makes the two types of housing different from a renter’s perspective. Costs: Apartment and condo rentals are often priced similarly, however, there are some benefits of renting a cond...

Duval Mobile Home Park in southeast Houston has 182 lots." />EXPAND The Duval Mobile Home Park in southeast Houston has 182 lots. Stephen Paulsen Elizabeth Perez loves her trailer park . But if she's ever forced to move, at least she has a back-up plan. A chatty 45-year-old with a wide smile, Perez has lived at and managed the Trinity Duval Mobile Home Park in southeast Houston since 2008. Used mobile homes here typically sell for $12,000 to $38,000, depending on their size and condition, she says. She remembers one woman buying a home for just $2,000, using her IRS refund. The Duval Mobile Home Park first opened in the 1950s. It was purchased last year by Trinity Community Group , a trailer park management company — and Perez worried about the future of the park. “I kept thinking, ‘Shoot, they're going to want to tear it down,’” Perez said. “I was kind of scared.” The company promised it would keep the park operational , according to Perez. Still, Perez accepts...

Nearly 45 percent of the millennials living in Milwaukee are having trouble paying for rent, according to a recent report by the apartment listing-service ABODO. The report looked at how much in rent people were paying in 100 cities throughout the U.S.; researchers said that people were struggling to afford rent if they were spending more than 30 percent of their income on housing costs. Nationally, 46.5 percent of those in the millennial generation struggled to afford rent. The city where millennials struggled most was Honolulu, where nearly 69 percent spent more than 30 percent of their income on rent. Meanwhile, the metro area that was most affordable to millennials was Omaha-Council Bluffs in Nebraska and Iowa. “When compared to the rest of the 100 largest cities in the country, Milwaukee is home to the 68th most cost-burdened group of Millennials in the entire U.S.,” Sam Radbil, a spokesman for ABODO, said in an email. Various observers have said members of the Millennial generat...

It is one of the necessities in life, finding shelter. But who actually enjoys taking the time to search all over town for a perfect place that mandatorily fits into a budget? Anchorage isn't exactly the most expensive city around, but it's certainly not the cheapest. In a search for almost anything these days, most will likely turn to everybody's favorite modern resource , the Internet. Unfortunately, the online listing for Anchorage apartments is slim, and the information available for those apartments is even more feeble. The best and probably most accurate aid in an apartment search is an Apartment Finder catalogue , the small, detailed pamphlets found all over town in stores like the local supermarket and other retailers. The Apartment Finder names a variety of complexes citywide, lists apartments within most everyone's budget, and even provides maps for easy directions. And it can be acquired for every consumer's favorite cost: p...

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