{"id":5,"date":"2026-09-18T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/fernandezhomes-com\/2026\/09\/18\/struggling-to-buy-a-home-miami-dade-opens-150000-down-payment-lottery\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:00:00","slug":"struggling-to-buy-a-home-miami-dade-opens-150000-down-payment-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernandezhomes.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/18\/struggling-to-buy-a-home-miami-dade-opens-150000-down-payment-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling to buy a home? Miami-Dade opens $150,000 down-payment lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>For many families in Miami-Dade, the dream of homeownership can feel just out of reach. That\u2019s why I\u2019m sharing an incredible opportunity: Miami-Dade County is launching a lottery to provide $150,000 in down-payment assistance to three families ready to purchase a 3-4 bedroom townhome in South Dade. If your household earns under 140% of the area median income, you\u2019re eligible to apply until September 30\u2014or until 200 applications are received.<\/p>\n<p>With over 25 years guiding families through Miami\u2019s real estate landscape, I know how life-changing support like this can be. My commitment has always been to listen closely and help you reach your goals\u2014so if this program might open the door for your family, I encourage you to look into it. Trust and community are at the heart of everything I do, and nothing brings me more joy than seeing clients achieve their homeownership dreams in our vibrant city.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us\/articles\/struggling-buy-home-miami-dade-134253148.html\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many families in Miami-Dade, the dream of homeownership can feel just out of reach. That\u2019s why I\u2019m sharing an incredible opportunity: Miami-Dade County is launching a lottery to provide $150,000 in down-payment assistance to three families ready to purchase a 3-4 bedroom townhome in South Dade. If your household earns under 140% of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":508,"featured_media":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernandezhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernandezhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernandezhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernandezhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernandezhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernandezhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernandezhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernandezhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernandezhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernandezhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}