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In Big Pine Key, one of the areas in the Florida Keys hardest hit by Hurricane Irma, wrecked homes still line the roads nearly nine months later. Some sport 'for sale' signs, a popular option on the working class island for those who can't afford to rebuild.
Two workshops on the affordable housing crisis in Key West are scheduled for this month, four months after Hurricane Irma devastated the Lower and Middle Keys. The first one is hosted by the City Commission and set for 6 p.m. Jan. 11 at City Hall, 1300 White St., with philanthropist and former Monroe County schools superintendent John Padget on the agenda with his proposal to build 480 rentals at the waterfront property at Trumbo Point, where the School Board has its administrative offices.
21, 2017, photo, Ed Swift, president of Key West-based Historic Tours of America, speaks during an interview, in Key West, Fla. "When housing is eliminated, as it was in this storm, there's literally no ... .
Maria Stotts, and Heather Mueller, volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, clear debris from a Monroe County sheriff's deputy's home damaged by a six-foot storm surge, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017, in Big Pine Key, Fla.
A week after Hurricane Irma devastated Big Pine Key near Marathon, Florida residents return and start to rebuild their homes on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017.
FEMA estimates that Hurricane Irma destroyed about one quarter of the homes in the Florida Keys and damaged most of the others. Keys residents who stayed behind during the storm are now struggling to pick up the pieces.
In this February 2013 file photo, a Key deer forages for food in the National Key Deer Refuge in the Florida Keys. The New World screwworm , which can kill livestock within two weeks, was found on animals in Big Pine Key and No Name Key in Florida earlier this month, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.