New townhomes are coming to Little Haiti - but owners won't own the land
City and county leaders broke ground on a new townhouse development in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood aimed at giving working-class buyers an affordable path to homeownership. Place Louverture will have 13 townhomes on a corner lot along Northeast 67th Street. The development marks the first Miami-Dade County project for the South Florida Community Land Trust, a Broward-based nonprofit that helps first-time homebuyers and families displaced by South Florida’s soaring housing costs. Under the community land trust model, buyers purchase the home i at a reduced price while the nonprofit retains permanent ownership of the underlying land. The groundbreaking comes as soaring property taxes and living expenses weigh heavy on longtime residents in the historically working-class neighborhood. Sampson Lisca, who bought his Little Haiti home 20 years ago, said escalating expenses are making it increasingly difficult to hold onto his property. “I just paid $5,200 for taxes,” Lisca said. Miami City Commissioner Christine King, who represents the district, said local leaders must make sure that people are not priced out of their neighborhood. “We have to look out for everybody,” King said. While developers say families who qualify for Place Louverture townhomes will be able to pass the properties down for
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