Lies in Wise Government Planning and Spending
Though he started his training as an
architect and planner at the University of Miami and later oversaw one of the
nation’s first form-based codes in the nearby coastal city of West Palm Beach,
Minicozzi doesn’t have much hope for the status quo in South Florida.
Miami has
always been a low-wage-paying region and now its costs of living are spiraling
upward toward the stratospheric heights of New York and San Francisco.
In a
county with a median income of $64,000, even middle class families cannot keep
up with the cost of housing, transportation, education and food while paying to
insure their property.
Where a modest house, far inland from the coast, can
cost more than $6,000 per year to insure against windstorm damage — many
families are dropping coverage altogether, despite being in the center of
hurricane alley.
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