Dade County

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Florida City

Hialeah

Little Havana

Little Haiti

North Miami

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Hialeah Park

Fountain at Race track

Hialeah:
Hialeah, one of the biggest employer of Dade county, is a city with predominantly residents of Hispanic descent. They have assimilated their cultural heritage into a community proud of its ethnicity, as well as its family oriented neighborhoods.

Florida City:
In contrast to the metropolitan character of Miami, the southern Dade County communities of Homestead and Florida City -- where the impact of Hurricane Andrew is still being absorbed is facing special challenges with the issue of poverty. In June 1994, the U.S. Department of Commerce designated Florida City/Homestead as the "New Growth Center" in South Miami-Dade.

Florida City City Hall

Woody's BBQ

Residential building in Little Havana	Cafe Nica	Little Havana: Little Havana embodies popular Cuban culture and lifestyle which gives the streets a colorful and lively feel. Buildings in this area include a diverse combination of low and high-rise multi-family apartments, duplexes and single family homes which offers a stable single family, middle income, residential neighborhood.
Reuben Dario Nicaragua	Yambo Entrance

Little Haiti: Once known as Lemon City, Little Haiti has become the heart of Miami's Haitian-American community. They have carved out their own place in Miami with their colorful and spirited Haitian art.	St. Jacques on a horse	Martin Luther King
	Goat	Madonna

Afro-fabric

Coffee Kiosk

North Miami:
During the previous decade, the city's racial composition shifted dramatically,
with the white population rapidly decreasing and other racial populations increasing sharply. The largest increase occurred is the African American population.

Ann Witte, awitte@wellesley.edu
Economics
Date Created: November 15, 1999
Last Modified: August 15, 2000
Expires: January 15, 2002