Witness the Rapid Transformation in Miami’s 5 Most Gentrified Neighborhoods 

Been here for 22 years now and it's astonishing what has happened in Miami during that short time window.

Not just Miami, the entire South Florida region has buildings being built up in months now

all this new development, but 0 affordable housing.

I like how Miami is developing, but it needs to improve its public transportation.

I lived off of Biscayne in the late '80s. I had a job at Burger King after school and on weekends and I got a loan for an older condo. I couldn't afford the bus but the MetroMover was free. Hoy Como Ayer and Teatro de Bellas Artes were the spot. Abram's Fabrics was on Biscayne and 19th and they sold me the fabric for my curtains. It's now a vape and rims shop. I sold for $775k and got the hell out in 2017. Best decision I ever made. My beloved Miami is gone forever but a fond memory.

Born and raised Miami. The citadel used to be a teen club called pac jam. The down side is we lost hoods like little san Juan. Crazy to see these old buildings. How quickly we have forgotten them. Thanks for this trip down memory lane.

I'm 53 born and raised in Miami. It used to decent but, it is horrible now. I spent my 20's in the mountains of North Carolina and moved back, unfortunately. I can't wait to leave this place, it's still will always be my home. It's a love, hate relationship. More hate than love.✌🏼

Basically kicking poor people out of Miami

who uses population number of just a city proper? 400,000 people? that's a laugh, there are 6 MILLION people living in Miami. Little Haiti has no where close to "some of the highest property values" in Miami, it is a ghetto! it's a run down dump overtake by drugs and BAD strip club clientele. Little Havana is NOT considered West Brickell, the West Brickell neighborhood is called West Brickell. SW 1st to I-95. Everything on the other side of I-95 is Little Havana. miami is AMAZING and nothing like disgusting Houston. Love living here so much! the city needs to do a better job curtailing soaring rents and property prices (it's essentially a bubble funded by money laundering and investment group manipulation), protecting Biscayne Bay's marine ecosystem, and they need to flat out arrest everyone associated with an HOH! but again, i love it here.

Miami has lost its soul with these high rents and property values and lack of respect for our old architecture and history and the old residents are being pushed out like dogs because of these crazy rents. There are no jobs for the people who really want to work and new construction is blocking our views of the bay and beaches!

I live in Miami Beach. For 20 years now. I'm happy for the growth and beautification and the amount of jobs and new hotels. But transit is a mess here. Rush hour around the clock. Heck, even at 11pm in a weekday traffic can be annoying. Rents are increasing like crazy and out of towners are buying the property. So. Personally is a mix bag. Lots of positives and lot of negatives,

I live in Edgewater. With all this new construction, Edgewater only has two N-S streets. Biscayne Blvd and NE 2nd Ave. Traffic is already a nightmare. There is only buses and no rail. No closest MetroRail station in one mile west on 36th Street. If you walk you are fine, driving will get worse and worse in the area.

Most people think of South Beach in relation to Miami because of the name Miami Beach. South Beach is a neighborhood of Miami Beach, which is a separate city from Miami. Most people outside of South Florida don't know this. Also, it's not the Florida Coast Railway, it's called the Florida East Coast Railway. Amazing to see all the changes going on with the new developments. Unfortunately, a lot of history is being destroyed in the process.

Believe it or not edge water in the 90s to early 2000s was a considerably dangerous place, despite it being on the water.

Was in the market to buy a single family property in early 2021, just as things started heating up. Looked at neighborhoods north of Little Haiti (North Miami), also close to Federal Highway near Aventura. As was looking to buy a rental that would serve as my permanent retirement home, crime stats, ft above sea level/flooding risk, were important considerations. Then switched focus to South West of the city, in the Coral Way, Coconut Grove, etc., and settled on a property there, due to being more of an established neighborhood, safer , and with lush vegetation, but mainly, due to easier access to metro rail.

I like this video. There’s a city just west of Miami called Hialeah it’s 90 percent Cuban it’s very interesting what is happening there. Little by little apartments towers are popping up in odd places. The most Cuban city in florida.

All the development and still excess flooding. Put the money in fixing that flooding problem

My guy, study a little bit of the history of the structure you are talking about. You cite Marlins Park being in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Thats the old site of the Orange Bowl, so its always been a Stadium. The area around it is in the center of Little Havana, which although residential is certainly Urban. Still a decent vid though, thanks for the presentation.

Those little houses being $1M are too expensive, it's ridiculous really. they should be 150-300k

The original Miami looks infinitely better than the new crap. Gentrification has ruined this city. In some cities it's done better than others. But Miami is not like other cities in the US. It's tropical and colorful. What they are doing is destroying this city and it's bohemian flair. Not good.

I'm an armchair urbanist who follows all the channels and forums, including yours. In 2022 I took a year off to travel the world to figure out where to move. My top list ended up being Paris, Lisbon, Miami and Praia, Cabo Verde. Weird list for someone who's into urbanism right? Only Paris and Lisbon fit the bill. And why isn't Amsterdam and others on it? Thing is as much as I love good urban design, there's more to life than that. Eg, Amsterdam has terrible weather and tbh I find Dutch culture and lifestyle monotonic and boring. Lisbon is diverse and great but salaries too low. Paris is diverse and amazing but too cold and salaries too low. Cabo Verde you need a good remote job to live. Miami has mostly terrible urban planning but is diverse, fun, gives access to good USD high paying jobs and has nuggets of gold which if you chose your neighborhoods, activities and lifestyle wisely can be much, much more livable than it looks. So I ended up in Miami. I live car-free in Little Havana, walking distance to both Brickell and Ocho. Plenty of restaurants, supermarkets, pharmacies and every imaginable service within walking distance. I ride my electric bike to South Beach, Little Haiti etc in ~20 minutes. (Wynwood and Overtown in like five ten lol) (that's faster than driving, esp in case of traffic or even just if you include parking) I can take the TriRail and Brightline to Ft Lauderdale and beyond. I can even ride the Amtrak all the way up the East Coast. Not living in Kendall or Hialeah, and not having to drive everywhere, I'm simply not as affected by the bad aspects of Miami's terrible urban planning as most people fuming in traffic on I-95 on the daily are. Don't get me wrong, Miami gets a solid F in so many ways when it comes to urbanism, so I don't want to plug it too hard. But yeah def not just doable but outright enjoyable if you make the right choices.

Wow that’s super interesting. I know that owning in little haiti can be very lucrative now, because you can sell for a lot of money. However it’s sad that the culture and atmosphere of this area is lost, revitalizing the communities would have been better, but on the other hand, gentrification does increase the safety of an area.

Ive been in Miami since 1989 (specifically in Hialeah, Hialeah Gardens, North Miami, Kendall, Homestead, and Coconut Grove) ... I wonder whos going to be left to work all those $20 and under per hour jobs when South Florida gets gentrified.

All outsiders coming in better learn Spanish and be patient while stuck in the very traffic they created. It was so much better even 10 years ago…just becoming more expensive, more crowded and less authentic by the day

Focusing on mixed use and walkability is great but that architecture is horrendous. All the towers are just cookie cutter rectangles

It'd be interesting to see what's going to materialize out their I'd say overly ambitious plans but having lived here for 8 years and having seen many of the plans that would benefit the communities of "middle-class" people never built or delayed, it seems like here, the big money will always win even if the project is ugly or bad for the environment, walkability, etc, etc. Miami feels like a clash between some really ambitious and educated people and uneducated cleptocrats. NIMBYs are a huge problem as well. My neighbourhood was recently designated "historic" when it's full of ugly, falling apart buildings, and huge parking lots with 0 cars.

I purchased a 3bdr in the Paraiso District in Edgewater last summer. I absolutely love it. I was born in NYC and lived in Manhattan for the last 12 years so I'm used to seeing new development and high-rises all around so I'm glad to see all the new development in Miami. Where I live it is clean, safe, amazing views of the bay, and you're close to everything in Brickell, Design District, South Beach, etc... My wife was born and raised in Miami and she is excited to see her city evolving as well.

The changes in miami from the last decade mirror the development of wynwood perfectly. It went from dingy but livable to a commercial corporate over populated hellscape, with nice weather T_T

Miami has changed for the worst. Hasn’t been good there since 1959.

I’ve live in Broward county, which is directly north of Miami. Me and my people generally stay outta there cause everything is becoming so expensive. But gentrification is like a virus and it’s spreading to Fort Lauderdale and surrounding cities and it’s pushing the long living residents, who are generally minorities and people who are not “well off” out. Shit sucks

Ppl probably anticipating the new mixed use tower to provide housing, utility, and charm to the block.. 5:52 they got a fckin wells fargo 🤣🤣 I doubt that's what was in any of the artist's renderings.

Wynwood already gentrified.Overtown is almost all gentrified . Now Little Haiti is gentrifying .In MIami gentrification is diffrent :it means where do we put all these Hispanics moving in ?

West Brickell.. that's hilarious

City is growing but some peoples pay remain the same even with the increase in food, rent, gas and insurance prices

Are you going to do any more videos? I realized it's been a year since this was posted.

Im from miami and living in nyc for 10 years, i saw the difference from when i left in 2013 to now, and i am somewhat impressed. Its safer in areas where it was dangerous, but the cost of living surpassed wages there. Like you can't really afford to live, and it's not really not must of an industry like nyc. Its more of tourists jobs that dont pay well.

I have a love hate relationship with the new miami

It’ll all be underwater soon enough. 😂

I like the growth that’s going on but a lot of the new homes that are being built in places like each little Havana are like luxury homes that would go for over 1 million. I mean mind you, the area doesn’t even call for that. And this is a theme in Miami and it’s pricing people out. I mean, if you’re gonna build homes build them for the masses. I mean people are getting priced out.

I’ll be south California in a few years

do you want to make a video about Vilvoorde belgium, it has changed extremely much especialy the roads

I've been living in Miami since 2018. Great weather and a cool metropolitan area, but it's just entirely too expensive. Rent even for piece of sh-t little apartments is out of control. If you make less than 80K expect to live like a starving artist.

Great video!

Gentrification is such a funny word. It's as if making neighborhoods nice and safe is a bad thing. The facelifts to the streets in these videos are undeniably a positive thing.

I mean…. It look like progress to me. When the rest of the country has companies running from the cities, we have all the biggest names running TO Miami… no tent cities, huge projects that bring jobs… can’t afford it? Move. Want to stay close, move to homestead and commute.

Welcome to the Gold Coast of Australia! Just please put in a metro under it all before it’s too built up otherwise there will just be too many cars like LA, Vegas or New York. The best thing at the beach is also light rail/trams. Works great on the GC no car needed but subway is however faster for longer distances with many stops and has right of way away from traffic. Start tunnelling Miami!

It's going to happen everywhere but alot of people are not ready or getting involved to evolve with this changes to come..Freshly paved sidewalks and smooth roads will change any neighborhood it's getting close when you see that..prepare for change 🙌🏼🙌🙌🏾🙌🏻🙌🏿

Remember when you could get a cheap apt in south beach studio for less then 1.500 a month didnt matter was small right on the beach lots of shopping and cafes was great now cant even get coffee for less than 5 bucks

Wow, that's a lot of new apartment buildings... as a Miami native, how the hell is it still unaffordable?

It's been 9 months since he last uploaded this video.

Do Philly next

Long live Ricks Bar and Freestyle!!!!

Great video… Gentrification is inevitable with new development I think, and good social housing should be built quickly by the city with federal funding to offset this. It’s better than rent control on the market at least.

where'd ya go?

Can you please tell me what map application you’re using? I’m interested in viewing cities via the map you’re using.

It's been unaffordable for the past couple of years now. I fucking hate it. I hate this place