The Weekly Staff

The Keys Weekly proudly brings you Kids Weekly each week, featuring local middle-school students and their answers to some fun questions. Instead of asking...

The Keys Weekly family loves animals as much as our friends at the Florida Keys SPCA do, and we’re thrilled each week to showcase...

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What happens to a tourist town when local workers can’t afford to live there?

Housing is the largest single challenge facing Florida Keys residents and has been for decades. With scarce buildable land, strict height restrictions, sky-high property values, second homes that sit empty most of the year and a proliferation of vacation rentals, many full-time workers no longer can afford to live or rent in the island chain, much less buy a home.

Over the next three weeks, Keys Weekly tackles the housing crisis by identifying the problem, examining its causes and seeking solutions.