How a Black Miami neighborhood became ‘ground zero for climate gentrification’

Photo caption: Joshua Kenley sits on the back porch of his home in the Liberty Square housing project…  Photo credit: Hector David Rosales. Article by Joseph Contreras. The Guardian – January 29, 2024.

Aaron McKinney had high hopes for Liberty City. In 2015, Miami-Dade county officials announced a $74m development project aimed at revitalizing the historically Black neighborhood in the north-west of the city. The plan was to raze Liberty Square, the dilapidated housing project in the heart of the neighborhood, and build 1,900 new apartments in its place. […]

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