Category: Affordable Housing
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Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava’s PAC got $100K from Li’l Abner developer, she helped him secure $9 million in affordable housing funding
By Dan Christensen and Cassidy Winegarden
FloridaBulldog.org
A political action committee that fundraises for Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava took $100,000 from companies run by the controversial developer of Sweetwater’s now empty Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park. Her PAC accepted the money as she helped the developer obtain $9 million in government funding for his affordable housing project Abner III during her 2024 bid for re-election. -
Huge, $4.6 billion ‘Flagler Center’ to rise on former site of Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park
By Cassidy Winegarden
FloridaBulldog.org
Sweetwater is the next Florida city to get a major master-planned development. “Flagler Center” will rise on more than 100 acres previously occupied by the defunct Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park. The $4.6 billion dollar project will be one of the largest redevelopment sites in Miami-Dade County. -
U.S. Reps. Gimenez, Diaz-Balart snag millions in HUD earmarks for Li’l Abner affordable housing developer, get huge contributions to their PACs
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The heart-wrenching ousters and evictions of about 3,000 vulnerable working class and elderly residents of Sweetwater’s Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park played out for months late last year in newspapers and on television screens across South Florida.
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