Families living in a North Miami apartment building say they\u2019re scrambling to find a new place to live after the city declared several units unsafe.<\/p>\n
One mother who lives in the building at 11930 Northeast 19th Drive said she feels stuck, worried about the conditions inside her home but unsure where her family will go next.<\/p>\n
Tenants said they were given just days to move out after parts of the building were deemed unsafe, and one said two representatives finally came out Friday morning to speak with residents about emergency housing assistance.<\/p>\n
“Have to pick up and leave and then not know where you\u2019re gonna go and feel like you don\u2019t have any help, any resources \u2014 no one is listening or hearing you,” April Lynch said. “You\u2019re screaming for help but no one is listening.”<\/p>\n
Lynch lives in the building with her 2 children and her apartment is among the 10 that were issued a vacate notice from the City of North Miami after multiple units were deemed unsafe.<\/p>\n
“Sagging floors, cracks on the walls, cracks in the floors,” Lynch said.<\/p>\n
Inside Lynch\u2019s apartment there are cracks throughout the walls and moisture when you press on them. She says she feels unsafe, but has nowhere to go.<\/p>\n
“We need help. We can\u2019t do this by ourselves. We don\u2019t have these deposits. Some of these deposits are ridiculous. They want three times the rent \u2014 who can afford $10,000 right now?” she said.<\/p>\n
Lynch says she received the notice to vacate on March 2 and was told she had to be out by March 9. She says the city sent two representatives to the building Friday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were sent out here to get our numbers to help us with emergency housing assistance. They\u2019re finally doing something and we appreciate it,” she said.<\/p>\n
The City of North Miami released this statement to NBC6.<\/p>\n
“The building was issued an unsafe structure violation in December 2025 after inspections found structural issues, including sagging floors and cracks,” the statement read, in part. “Officials say 10 units were ultimately deemed unsafe, and tenants were ordered to vacate by March 9 while the city works with the building owner on repairs.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, residents like Lynch are packing up moving trucks and hoping to find a new place to live soon.<\/p>\n
The city also said residents who are affected can reach out to North Miami’s Housing and Social Services Department for additional resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Families living in a North Miami apartment building say they\u2019re scrambling to find a new place to live…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,7338],"class_list":["post-191634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-north-miami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}