250 Affordable Units Planned In 12

The Healthy Housing Foundation is planning a 12-story affordable housing building in Little River, according to the SFBJ.

Little River Plaza is planned to include:

A zig-zag aluminum screen and balcony rail system is planned to reduce solar heat gain. The design is said to recall the mid-century subtropical passive solar architecture of Florida.

Unit sized will range from 380 to 540 square feet, with units limited to those earning 50 percent of the area’s median income or below.

Glavovic Studio is the architect.

Construction is planned to begin in Q4 2023.

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The county needs hundreds of projects like this

times 10

No the city needs to increase high density zoning and allow more construction instead of halting it for some hunter gather trash. No city in the world is able to build enough affordable housing.

Governments can allow for higher density while also planning affordable housing projects.

Yes! And redesign the roads

We need speed bumps all around Brickell. These stolen race cars are too much!

You need to watch traffic and use crosswalks and traffic signals. And put your phone down.

The lack of proper crosswalks in Brickell is becoming urgent! Many intersections lack them entirely, causing inconvenience and safety concerns. Even existing crosswalks often miss certain sides, leading to delays and unsafe crossing. Implementing complete four-way crosswalks is crucial for pedestrian safety and traffic flow!

The need for speed bumps is clear due to frequent reckless driving incidents, like the recent hit-and-run involving construction workers in Brickell (right where a school is about to open). Installing speed bumps will deter speeding and enhance safety. These changes need immediate attention to prevent accidents and protect the community!

use yourself as a speedbump

We need to build new streetscapes around our metros to allow for greater density without gridlocked vehicle congestion. Is this near a metro rail/mover stop?

It’s near a proposed Coastal Link stop. Metrorail is a pipe dream and Metromover would take an hour to get here from downtown, notwithstanding breakdowns.

Don’t develop here then! We don’t have the infrastructure for more traffic in this part of I95.

We need to develop everywhere! Trains will come later, assuming population growth supports it.

The 79th St Corridor has plenty of vacant land to be developed and it is wide enough to have the Metro Rail connecting the Upper East Side with Hialeah, Doral, and MIA

Is the rapid plan for an expidited Metrorail north corridor to the Joe Robbie Dolphins stadium actually being built in time for the 2026 world cup?

It’s just monotonous girders over a generic wide boulevard/avenue with only one station? Or did they give up and drop that ball, too?

amazing, low budget proyect that does not compromise design; love it!

This looks more interesting than a lot of the “luxury” stuff.

Looks like a prison institution won’t the common courtyard.

What a cool design. Love how they have interspersed interesting design, ‘movable’ aesthetic of the exterior and solar efficiency. Fact that this is for affordable housing makes it even more unique. I echo the comments that this is more interesting than a lot of the ‘luxury’ stuff. This is way more interesting visually than any of the “Melo” infill buildings that no one ever wants to look at.

Agree 100%, Melo could learn a thing or two about this project

this is way more interesting visually than any of the Melo infill buildings that no one ever wants to look at. This is a small building , Melo builds skyscrapers that cost a lot more to build . compare aples to aples .

The inside court yard looks like a cruise ship.

It would be nice to have a train stop on the FEC tracks at 79th Street.

Very refined. Clean. Looks great

I hope we continuing getting more density like this north of Wynwood

I surely hope not, the traffic is unbearable there already, and they don’t have a metro mover or rail system.

As if MetroMOVER is going to help with traffic.

I use the mover from Brickell to downtown due to the terrible traffic on Biscayne in that downtown area. If it benefits me, it can benefit others too. The whole city will see a reduction in road congestion.

However, the mover’s route is quite puzzling. It would be better if it formed a single continuous loop in both directions. A separate downtown loop isn’t necessary; people primarily desire easy accessibility to and from Brickell.

So stop driving so damn much.

If there was more to do around the mover stops, maybe I would!

this is going to turn ghetto and run down real fast.

Affordable housing in little river is nicer than half the proposals for “luxury” housing in Brickell – wtf lol

I don’t think so – this looks like a motel or casino in Long Island.

Nah, it looks like a nice, all glass building with a faceted facade. Which is what it is.

Is this location Little River or Little Haiti ?

We need LESS affordable housing, not more. Get the ghetto out of Miami.

Affordable housing is very expensive. Let the market work without government messing it up. Tremendous moral hazard and corruption with “Affordable” housing.

Finally, Something interesting is coming to the Upper East Side

It’s not the upper East side, it’s like a suburb outside miami.

380 square feet….yikes. Don’t lower income folks deserve a proper dwelling unit? Housing should be a human right, but I know this will get downvoted to h-e-double hockey sticks here.

…as it should get downvoted. My 1st apt. was a 10×10 room in a boarding house, after that I lived 5 years in a 325 sq ft studio apt. Zero public assistance. When you have little money, you live like you have little money.

Like I said, most people on this site are of the cruel mindset that housing, something we all need to LIVE, shouldn’t be a right. Forget the whole right to LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You had it tough therefore everyone after you should also suffer.

You think the world owes you a middle class living. Life isn’t a TV show kiddo. Looks like you’ll have to learn this the hard way.

It’s the right to PURSUE liberty and happiness, not the right to be handed it.

Nobody is entitled to luxury housing in one of the most desirable cities in the world. People need to live according to their means.

Annoying

good concept, but terrible execution.

Sad little prison to live in