State Of The City Of Hallandale Beach, Part 7

By Hallandale Beach Mayor, Joy Cooper

Jul 16, 2025

While We Are Growing, The Housing Market Is Becoming Less Affordable For Families To Live Here. We Want Them To Stay. People Are Coming Here Because We Are A Low Tax State. We Want Businesses To Succeed Here, Stay Here And Others To Invest Here. It Cannot Happen Without A Balanced Housing Stock With All Levels.

We have taken on a newer aggressive approach to Affordable Housing in our City. Considering the typical Single-Family Home in our City on average was well below a countywide average of $240,000 a few years ago. Homes are being scooped up by developers and flipped. One was recently listed for $700,000 in the southwest.

If you are purchasing property with Liens we do have mitigation, if the pro forma still does not pencil out due to Liens. I championed a mitigation process where buyers can mitigate further so long as they build affordable. Each case will be different but so long as there is a comparable affordable unit created, the mitigation is negotiable.

Watching this trend, we started to work within our CRA to purchase homes and duplexes, rehab them and place them on the market as affordable rentals. We are creating an affordable housing pool to preserve units. Within the year, we will have thirty-one units.

We are also extremely excited about the many developments that have opened and are under construction. These two can be easily found on our website. Our City has a CRA and two Safe Neighborhood Districts.

The CRA continues with its many successful programs. From residential grants to business grants. We are serious about improving our City. The CRA will sunset in two years. We held a workshop about what direction to take, and most of the city commission would rather establish a citywide economic development division.

We also want to continue many of the assistance programs that help residents and spur economic growth development. Commissioners Anabelle Lima-Taub summed it up best when she said, “We are not getting rid of the CRA, we are expanding access to programs citywide.” Dr. Earle is working on a transition plan which will include our extremely talented staff that understand economic development.

In the meantime, I ask you all to check out the CRA website and take advantage of the great opportunities. As always, I am available anytime for your questions, concerns, and ideas to make our City a better place on my Phone/Text at: (954) 632-5700. Or you can email me at: jcooper@cohb.org. Please visit me on my Facebook page at Mayor Joy Cooper. Like! Follow! And share!