Cities are known by their skylines.
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City Built is a Miami-based media platform exploring the people, businesses, culture, and ideas shaping cities.
Through conversations, field stories, and original writing, we meet the entrepreneurs, artists, civic leaders, builders, business owners, and everyday people doing the work of building a city.
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City Built started with a hunch: the real story of a city was never in the skyline. It's in the people who show up every day to build it.
That hunch belongs to Irvans Augustin — a Miami strategist who spent two decades helping cities turn ideas into action, then started asking the people doing that work to just talk about it. What began as a handful of Miami conversations is now 50+ episodes and counting, rebroadcast nationally on SiriusXM.
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What does it take to make Miami work for the people who live here? Gloria Romero Roses explores housing, transit, child care, and elder care as one connected cost of living.
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Gloria Romero Roses · Candidate, Florida House District 113
What does it take to make Miami a city that works for the people who live here?
About This Conversation
Host Irvans Augustin joins Gloria Romero Roses, who has spent four decades in real estate, affordable housing, and community development, for a conversation about how the way Miami grows shapes what it costs to live here.
Gloria connects housing supply to density and transit, using Brickell as an example of a high-density corridor, and makes the case that a household able to go without a car could save roughly $15,000 a year. They also discuss child care and elder care, including how neighborhoods can let older residents age in place near family.
In This Conversation
Housing affordability and the economics of development
Density, land use, and Brickell as a high-density corridor
Why transit depends on density
The real cost of car dependence
Child care, elder care, and aging in place
Planning for Miami’s future
About the Guest
Gloria Romero Roses has worked across real estate, affordable housing, and community development for 40 years, including turning around struggling condo associations, running an assisted living facility, and chairing the Women’s Fund Miami-Dade through the pandemic. At the time of this recording, she was a candidate for Florida House District 113.
Gloria did not pay for this interview, and the same opportunity was offered to her opponent. This conversation is presented for public information and discussion and does not constitute a campaign endorsement by City Built.
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