Despite a broader national trend of declining rent growth and a shift in favor of tenants, Florida’s rental market is facing challenges in cooling off. Approximately 825,990 low-income households in the state are burdened with paying more than 40 percent of their income towards rent, while the state lost units renting for $1,000 or less and experienced population growth, exacerbating the challenge of affordable housing. Miami-Dade County is at the center of Florida’s affordable housing crisis, with the highest number of cost-burdened renters, and 25 percent of respondents in a University of North Florida survey listed housing