Thank you for this eloquent and factually supported piece! (rare combination.) My beautiful tiny historic Miami neighborhood, which used to feel like a village in the middle of the city, where neighbors knew each other, celebrated and raised their kids together, has been gutted by absentee landlords running party house AirBnB's. Meanwhile, home prices skyrocket to ridiculous levels. Other predatory development and real estate practices which treat us as a place to extract money are also destroying the community. Commercial property taxes have gone so high that most of the little local restaurants had to close; those spaces sit empty too. People buy houses and sit on them for years, practicing demolition by neglect. Other investors have demolished a church which was our polling place, a small apartment building, a little hotel, a restaurant, leaving empty lots where they planned developments that fell through or haven't materialized. The high home prices lure people to sell - but prices in Miami are so high that you can only sell if you leave the city. But then where do you go?