After hours of debate, Miami commissioners seek still more housing plan specifics
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City commissioners voted unanimously to accept the findings of the Miami Affordable Housing Master Plan, which lays out a 10-...
A Letter from the CEO
I can remember being very nervous many many years ago, when I had just one year left on my relocation package from Chicago to Washington DC to use the $3000 closing cost benefit and I simply wasn’t ready to buy. I had not saved money for down payment or even identified a good neighborhood. I didn’t want to lose the $3000 closing cost benefit which was a lot of money back then. As a young professional living in DC, I had maybe one friend who already owned a home. Even after living in Chicago, I was still dumbfounded by the idea that my first place would cost at least 3 times what my parents paid for their home. And it would not be as nice or as big as the homes in my hometown of Milwaukee. I was not working in affordable housing or non-profits at the time and I had big aspirations for a large home, in a great neighborhood, with good schools.
Fast forward decades later, my vocation is to enable this dream of homeownership for thousands of people as a community development practitioner. Personally and professionally, it has been rewarding to see people push back their fears to start and complete their journey of homeownership.
