Inside the developer gold rush to update Miami-Dade’s aging public housing

A collection of two-story buildings with orange stucco walls sits on a quiet lot along Miami’s busy Northeast Second Avenue. A few blocks west, single-story white homes with air-conditioning units wedged in windows and clotheslines in courtyards cluster underneath Interstate 95. These are some of Miami’s public housing complexes, built from the 1940s to the 1970s along a mile stretch in the Little River neighborhood, and now primed for their next era.