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Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust Chairman Ron Book speaks during a Nov. 29, 2023, Cutler Bay town council forum on the Homeless Trust’s proposal to transform the La Quinta Inn motel into a transition home for the homeless.

More than 60 years after being built, Miami Marine Stadium has been abandoned by the city — and has been abandoned for longer than it was operational.

The city says it is making progress, but most days the city-owned and operated Tower Theater offers no events for the public, a big change from the past.

“The idea is to use this building to break that cycle and actually shrink over time, significantly, the homeless population," Judge Steve Leifman said about the Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery, which is gearing up to open.

Low pay, lack of safety and poor benefits highlighted in survey of 302 workers

The Caribbean Marketplace, part of the Little Haiti Cultural Complex, came to life one weekend earlier this month with vendors, dance classes, kompa music and the tempting aroma of Haitian

Less than half of the money given to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund in recent years for similar projects has been used. Commissioner Damian Pardo says this time will be different.

Camillus House CEO Eddie Gloria is taking steps to reduce beds, saying the organization has been stretched past capacity for too long.

With the new sheriff's office, Miami-Dade County will face changes in policing. Unincorporated areas may see the starkest change with the sheriff outside county oversight.

More than 1 million residents in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, from Miami Gardens in the north to Florida City in the south, may be in for some changes as Miami-Dade prepares to elect a sheriff for the first time in nearly 60 years.