The chapter knits together memoir and the voices of several residents or former residents of the Baa Haas, also called the Bahas or Bajas, a little known neighborhood near Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. It does so to explore black settlement in greater Miami following the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Such residents often came from elsewhere in the country and older segregated black communities like Liberty City, Overtown, and Coconut Grove. Some of them left and settled in neighborhoods that local powerbrokers now covet as beach erosion and other climate issues make coastal properties less desirable. The way in which some black homeowners still hold onto their property in greater Miami is investigated. The Baa Haas serves as the ultimate case study for the triumphs and sorrows of a black subdivision in the country’s southernmost metropolis. The author also recounts her father’s journey toward becoming a homeowner in the Baa Haas in 1972. He and her mother were at the time barely out of high school. Given the difficulties that people from a variety of backgrounds face in purchasing a home today, this particular story serves as a testament to what had been possible for some African Americans even as new challenges for the black community arrived by the 1980s. The reader learns again how the late 1960s through the 1970s appears to have been a golden age for black homeownership.

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Baa Haas

  • Sharony Green

摘要

The chapter knits together memoir and the voices of several residents or former residents of the Baa Haas, also called the Bahas or Bajas, a little known neighborhood near Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. It does so to explore black settlement in greater Miami following the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Such residents often came from elsewhere in the country and older segregated black communities like Liberty City, Overtown, and Coconut Grove. Some of them left and settled in neighborhoods that local powerbrokers now covet as beach erosion and other climate issues make coastal properties less desirable. The way in which some black homeowners still hold onto their property in greater Miami is investigated. The Baa Haas serves as the ultimate case study for the triumphs and sorrows of a black subdivision in the country’s southernmost metropolis. The author also recounts her father’s journey toward becoming a homeowner in the Baa Haas in 1972. He and her mother were at the time barely out of high school. Given the difficulties that people from a variety of backgrounds face in purchasing a home today, this particular story serves as a testament to what had been possible for some African Americans even as new challenges for the black community arrived by the 1980s. The reader learns again how the late 1960s through the 1970s appears to have been a golden age for black homeownership.