The Audrey M. Edmonson Transit Village Brings Affordable Housing and Community Assets to an Underinvested Neighborhood in Miami, Florida

September 1, 2020  

The Audrey M. Edmonson Transit Village Brings Affordable Housing and Community Assets to an Underinvested Neighborhood in Miami, Florida

Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood has experienced chronic disinvestment for much of the past 50 years. Among other factors, the construction of Interstate 95 concentrated poverty in the neighborhood, and the uprising related to the death of Arthur McDuffie in 1980 contributed to a prolonged period of disinvestment that persisted into the twenty-first century. Creating 176 units of affordable housing, Audrey M. Edmonson Transit Village is a significant economic and cultural investment for Liberty City. The transit village features considerable community assets: a bus transit hub, a performing arts theater and related cultural spaces, and ground-floor commercial space.

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