Touching Miami with Love to Build 100 Homestead Units
The nonprofit organization plans to develop new affordable housing for local families by 2027.
Updated on Oct. 26, 2026 in Construction
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Touching Miami with Love will construct a five-story development featuring 100 affordable housing units in Homestead. The project is expected to break ground in 2027.
Why it matters
This development seeks to address the regional housing crisis and support families in remaining in their neighborhoods. The effort aims to mitigate a significant shortfall in available low-cost living spaces.
The total project cost is $53 million for the 100-unit complex. This development addresses a larger 90,000-unit affordable housing shortage across Miami-Dade County.
The players
Touching Miami with Love
This is a Homestead-based nonprofit organization focused on addressing the housing needs of local families.
Greater Miami Housing Funders Collaborative
This organization provided the development process training used by the nonprofit to prepare for this project.
The details
The nonprofit plans to build the new housing on land situated behind its existing facility in Homestead. To prepare for this scale of development, the organization participated in training through the Greater Miami Housing Funders Collaborative.
Timeline
A 2021 survey identified housing as a top concern for local families.
Community leaders and residents discussed new housing strategies in May 2026.
Construction is expected to break ground in 2027.
Market Landscape
The initiative reflects a broader movement toward utilizing local nonprofit capacity to increase housing supply in the face of widespread shortages. It follows a pattern set by Miami-Dade County's accessory dwelling unit zoning regulations to incentivize density in residential areas.
Local families may see expanded opportunities for stable housing as the project moves toward its 2027 ground-breaking date. The effort serves as a specific intervention in the local market to help residents stay in their neighborhoods.
The takeaway
Nonprofits are increasingly leveraging specialized training to manage major residential developments in undersupplied markets. Implementing similar community-driven strategies can help mitigate the impacts of regional housing shortages for local residents.
What happens next
Construction is expected to break ground in 2027.
Further reading
Learn more about local development efforts in the Construction section.
Source note: This article includes information reported by NBC 6 South Florida.
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