affordable housing

The proposed construction of Esencia comes as home prices and sales in the western municipality of Puerto Rico rise, even as residents struggle to secure a place of their own at an affordable cost.

She became her neighborhood’s Alderwoman thanks to organized groups of workers, immigrants, and the most vulnerable residents in her area, and by positioning herself against the power of developers. Her affordable housing proposals go hand in hand with violence prevention and public health initiatives.

In Polk County, which is more than an hour from Tampa and three from Miami, overall rental income rose an average of 53.7% between 2017 and the first quarter of 2022, a jump from $924 to $1,421. By percentage, Polk was the county where rents increased the most during that five-year period in Florida.