2000 NW 3rd Ave. — Approximate Site of Affordable Housing Effort
A Homestead nonprofit that has spent three decades helping struggling families is now trying to solve their biggest problem itself: housing. Touching Miami with Love is planning a five-story development with 100 affordable housing units on unused land behind its existing building, a project meant to keep the working families it already serves from being priced out of their own neighborhood.
The nonprofit has served Overtown and West Homestead since 1995, according to Touching Miami with Love, and provides free after-school and summer camp programs, job training and family services. As reported by NBC 6 South Florida, the organization says it has secured funding for the project, which is expected to break ground in 2027. The outlet puts the cost at $53 million…