Housing in Florida consists of apartments, condominiums, hotels, retirement communities, and houses. Common types of housing in the state include Cracker style homes, Ranch-style homes, Caribbean style homes, and Condominiums with styles including Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, Victorian architecture, Mediterranean Revival architecture, Art Deco, Modern architecture, and Pueblo Revival architecture.
In 2020, there were 3,903 hotel properties in Florida, consisting of 458,721 hotel and motel rooms. [1] In 2019, the American Automobile Association reported that Florida was the 2nd cleanest state in the U.S. by hotel cleanliness, having 485 hotels in the top 25%. [2] [3] Orlando, Florida, was the 4th cleanest city in the country, having 69 hotels in the top 25%. [2] [3]
Apartments are that of a larger company such as a leasing company. These homes are usually single unit residences that are rented on a monthly or yearly basis with the owner of the complex. Apartments are most commonly used by small families, couples, and singles due to their lease flexibility, lower cost, and smaller size. Although nearly every city in Florida has apartments, the larger cities tend to have a much higher volume of these residences. [4]
Many of the condominiums in Florida are considered high-rise condominiums and can feature architecture styles from art deco and more modern forms of architecture. These stand alone buildings are often home to hundreds of individually owned homes that are slightly larger than their hotel counterparts. With the rise of timeshare in the 1970s, many condos in these condominiums are group owned and shared throughout the year amongst the different owners. Condo owners usually share joint facilities such as pools and beachfronts. These communal amenities are commonly shared expenses with each owner being responsible for their share of the cost involved in upkeep. [4]
One common home in the state is a cracker home. Historically, the cracker home is either a farmhouse, townhouse, or a plantation, and began appearing at the turn of the nineteenth century. Characteristics include wood-framed construction, a large front porch, horizontal wood siding in both the exterior and interior, an elevated first floor, a revealed fireplace, an overhang, and a steep roof. The cracker home was made to withstand Florida's harsh climates, and is known today for its energy efficiency. It is prevalent in Naples and North Florida. The home also allows for additional rooms to be attached to the house if needed, forming a compound. [5]
In the Key West, houses also use the Caribbean housing style. Caribbean housing takes influence from The Bahamas and was prevalent from 1825 to the 1890s. It is made of wood and masonry, and characteristics include a courtyard, balcony, and a loggia. [5]
Mediterranean Revival architecture is a housing style common in Palm Beach and Coral Gables. It is an adaptation of Spanish and Moorish architecture, and its popularity has kept it in practice. [5] [6]
Modern architecture is a vernacular style of housing that was in practice from the 1920s to the 1940s and was mainly common in Miami and Miami Beach. [5] During this time, South Florida was embracing Art Deco architecture, and modern architecture consisted of metals, plastics, glass blocks, and glass panels. [5] [6]
Ranch-style architecture is another very popular architectural design in the state of Florida. The ranch style house is characterized by its large open floor plans, low roofs, and single story size. This was a very popular design in the 1920s to 1970s and commonly offered large garage space which appealed to the suburban housing ideals of the time. [7]
Spanish Colonial Revival architecture was most popular from 1915 to 1930 and mainly embraced by Florida and California. This style of architecture is loosely based on colonial Mexico's style in the early 20th century and exhibits the trade mark bright stucco exterior and red roof tiles. [8]
Pueblo Revival architecture often uses clay, concrete, or adobe as the primary building materials. This style is often identified by the darker earth tones such as the true tan clay or red adobe color pallets. The roofs of this style of home are usually flat and have curved designs around the interior and exterior trims. [9]
According to the 2019 American Community Survey, there are 9,674,053 housing units, with 7,905,832 being households and a 66.2% of housing ownership. Of those, 2,127,517 households are in Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties. [10]
The first major land boom was between 1782 and 1784, when British Loyalists fled following the American Revolutionary War and English population increased by 280%. [6] In the 1920s, Florida was in the midst of high real estate activity, where the state saw inflated real estate values and many coming into the state eager for profits. The market for real estate reached a peak in 1925, with the 1926 Miami hurricane and Wall Street Crash of 1929 forcing little development in the state and a land bust. [6]
During this time, hundreds of small Art Deco-styled apartments and hotels were constructed in the 1930s and 1940s, rebelling against the Mediterranean Revival style that persists to this day. [6] Aviator Glenn Curtis introduced the Indian pueblo style of the American Southwest, which was heavily used in Country Club Estates. Land development continued through the post-war mid-1900s. [6]
From 2007 to 2020 Florida had the largest decrease in the number of homeless nationwide. [11] In January 2019, the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported approximately 28,328 people were undergoing homelessness in Florida on any given day, [12] a decrease of 8.7% from the previous year, [13] or about 0.1% of the population. Of those, 5,729 were experiencing chronic homelessness and 2,472 were Veterans. [12] In October 2011, Operation Sacred Trust was founded to assist homeless Veterans in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. [14]
The architecture of the United States demonstrates a broad variety of architectural styles and built forms over the country's history of over two centuries of independence and former Spanish, French, Dutch and British rule.
A condominium is an ownership regime in which a building is divided into multiple units that are either each separately owned, or owned in common with exclusive rights of occupation by individual owners. These individual units are surrounded by common areas that are jointly owned and managed by the owners of the units. The term can be applied to the building or complex itself, and is sometimes applied to individual units. The term "condominium" is mostly used in the US and Canada, but similar arrangements are used in many other countries under different names.
The Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, often known simply as Spanish Revival, is a term used to encompass a number of revivalist architectural styles based in both Spanish colonial architecture and Spanish architecture in general. These styles flourished throughout the Americas, especially in former Spanish colonies, from California to Argentina.
The Miami Beach Architectural District is a U.S. historic district located in the South Beach neighborhood of Miami Beach, Florida. The area is well known as the district where Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace lived and was assassinated by Andrew Cunanan, in a mansion on Ocean Drive. It is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Sixth Street to the south, Alton Road to the west and the Collins Canal and Dade Boulevard to the north. It contains 960 historic buildings.
The Pueblo Revival style or Santa Fe style is a regional architectural style of the Southwestern United States, which draws its inspiration from Santa Fe de Nuevo México's traditional Pueblo architecture, the Spanish missions, and Territorial Style. The style developed at the beginning of the 20th century and reached its greatest popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, though it is still commonly used for new buildings. Pueblo style architecture is most prevalent in the state of New Mexico; it is often blended with Territorial Revival architecture.
The Upper Eastside is a neighborhood in Miami, Florida. It is north of Edgewater, east of Little Haiti, south of the village of Miami Shores, and sits on Biscayne Bay. In geographical order from south to north and east to west, it contains the subdivisions of Magnolia Park, Bay Point, Morningside, Bayside, Belle Meade, Shorecrest, and Palm Grove. The MiMo District along Biscayne Boulevard in the area is host to many art galleries, shops and restaurants.
Jorge M. Pérez is an Argentine-American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer. He is best known as the chairman and CEO of The Related Group, a Miami-based real estate company that has been well known for building and operating affordable and luxury multifamily apartments across the United States and internationally. He is ranked 316th on the Forbes 400 list with a net worth of US$ 2.6 billion as of October 2018, and 1,833rd on Forbes Billionaires list with US$1.7 billion as of November 2021.
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The Mission Revival style was part of an architectural movement, beginning in the late 19th century, for the revival and reinterpretation of American colonial styles. Mission Revival drew inspiration from the late 18th and early 19th century Spanish missions in California. It is sometimes termed California Mission Revival, particularly when used elsewhere, such as in New Mexico and Texas which have their own unique regional architectural styles. In Australia, the style is known as Spanish Mission.
Lawrence Murray Dixon was an architect in Miami Beach, Florida. He was born in Live Oak, Florida, attended the Georgia School of Technology (1918–1919) and worked in New York for Schultze and Weaver from 1923 to 1929 when he moved to Miami Beach. He is credited with designing The Temple House (1933) in the South Beach section of Miami Beach as well as other Art Deco hotels and residences. Dixon is listed as a Great Floridian.
Pueblo Deco is an architectural style in the Southwestern United States popular in the early 20th century. Pueblo Deco fused elements of Art Deco with the region's Pueblo and Territorial architectures, themselves inspired by Pueblo and Territorial Styles. Early Pueblo Deco design was influenced by architect Mary Colter's work, which incorporated Native American elements. The term was popularized by author Carla Breeze, whose 1984 Pueblo Deco: The Art Deco Architecture of the Southwest , and 1990 Pueblo Deco books described the fusion of southwestern motifs with the popular Deco style. Notable examples of buildings incorporating Pueblo Deco elements include the KiMo Theater in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona.
Lester Avery was an architect in the United States. Avery began his career in Clearwater and is known for his Mid-Century Modern architecture apartment buildings in Miami and ranch style home designs with angled, flat roofs and merging wings. He expanded Lawrence Murray Dixon's The Temple House in Miami's South Beach area. Avery was the architect of Clearwater, Florida's Capitol Theatre, opened March 21, 1921. It was built by Senator-elect John Stansel Taylor and the contractor was John D. Phillipoff. He also designed the Jackie Gleason House (1959) at 2232 Alton Road in Miami.
The architecture of Jacksonville is a combination of historic and modern styles reflecting the city's early position as a regional center of business. According to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, there are more buildings built before 1967 in Jacksonville than any other city in Florida, though few structures in the city center predate the Great Fire of 1901. Numerous buildings in the city have held state height records, dating as far back as 1902, and last holding a record in 1981.
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B. Robert Swartburg was an American architect working in New York and Florida primarily known for his Modern and Streamline Moderne architectural style. He was one of the leading modernist architects in South Florida contributing greatly to the development of MiMo Modern style in the post- WWII 40s and 50's. In his 35-year career he is said to have designed over 1000 buildings. Swartburg was also an accomplished artist who painted for pleasure, and executed murals and sculptures to embellish his buildings.
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