The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce's Housing Solutions Task Force is using data to determine how to make housing more affordable in Miami-Dade County.
Between 2000 and 2015 Miami-Dade's population grew by 386,000 people. One thing that isn't growing as quickly, affordable places for residents to live. This is some of the new information released Thursday by the Urban Institutes report, in partnership with JPMorgan Chase & Co.
At their meeting Thursday, Urban Institutes presented their new report, 'Miami and the State of Low-and Middle-Incoming Housing' to a room full of community leaders.
Managing Director and Head of Community Development JPMorgan Chase Global Philanthropy's Janis Bowdler says Miami working families are having a hard time finding reasonable rents in Miami.
"Miami renters are increasingly cost burden and not just at the very low income end, but really the middle income," said Bowdler.
In addition to housing, public transportation was also found to be a major barrier for affordable housing.
"That actually adds to people's cost burden, so they have to move further out to find a more affordable apartment, but then they're spending more on transportation, they're spending more time on the road," said Bowdler.
Presenting the report to the Miami Chamber was the first step toward creating ways to solve the housing affordability crisis in Miami-Dade County.
"We're going to have a meeting with Miami Homes for All, who's really going to lead this call to action, bring a lot of the stakeholders together, figure out where we go from here," said Bowdler.