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  Miami Beach Considers Charging Unlicensed Airbnb Hosts With Misdemeanors UPDATED

  September 11 at 4:08 p.m.

  There are perfectly legitimate worries that Airbnb gentrifies neighborhoods and makes cities even less affordable than they already are. But so far, cities have had a hard time figuring out exactly how to handle the service, which lets homeowners rent their properties for days at a time. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is locked in a fierce fight with the company over his city's plan to crack down on Airbnb.

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  Cordoba Courts in Opa-locka Criticized as a Slum

  September 5 at 8 a.m.

  On a Saturday morning in 2013, Shalonda Rivers woke up early, ate a breakfast of microwaved oatmeal, and put a mop to her linoleum floor. It was the first step in her weekend cleaning routine, an ongoing battle against grime, pests, and mold that began when she moved into the...

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  Miami Trump Towers Developer Said He Worried Trump Would Ask Him for Money

  August 27 at 4:54 p.m.

  Donald Trump is, contrary to his own daily assurances, despised by those around him. His White House is a cesspool of cynical weasel-people sniping at one another in the press and ratting him out to federal law enforcement. His own kids barely like him. His business acquaintances in Miami apparently share that feeling...

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  Miami Foreclosures Up 29 Percent From July 2017 to 2018, Report Says

  August 21 at 4:22 p.m.

  By nearly every metric, Miami's housing and rental markets are Kafkaesque nightmares. Few people can afford their homes here because they are expensive, while median incomes are embarrassingly low. It's a dangerous predicament — one natural disaster could throw tons of cash-strapped homeowners spiraling into bankruptcy.

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  Miami Beach Secretly Letting German Mogul Break Short-Term Rental Ban, Lawsuit Says

  August 10 at 11 a.m.

  In 2016, Miami Beach became one of the hardest places in America to book a short-term vacation rental. Thanks to laws enacted over the past two years, the city now levies fines as high as $100,000 on property owners with illegal rentals and has plans to target platforms such as Airbnb.

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  Downtown Miami Has Nearly Six-Year Backlog of New Luxury Condos Amid Housing Crisis

  August 10 at 8 a.m.

  Earlier this year, real-estate analyst Peter Zalewski warned that South Florida developers had so overbuilt luxury condos for the global 1 percent that it would take an estimated four years to sell them all. At the rate condos were selling in downtown Miami, he found, the 505 available units would have taken nearly 6.5 years...