South Miami Founded in 1980 the Goodman Psychological Services Center (GPSC) was established with the purpose of providing quality culturally sensitive mental health services to low-income minority clients in Southern Florida Sponsored by Albizu University the Goodman Center is also a practicum site housing four training programs; the Psy.D in Clinical Psychology program the M.S in Psychology program with a major in Marriage and Family Therapy the M.S in Speech and Language Pathology program and the GPSC Doctoral Internship Consortium Program, A Miami-Dade police car The housing market crash of 2007 caused a foreclosure crisis in the area in 2012 Forbes magazine named Miami the most miserable city in the United States because of the crippling housing crisis that cost multitudes of residents their homes and jobs in addition the metro area has one of the highest violent crime rates in the country and workers face lengthy daily commutes Like other metro areas in the United States crime in Miami is localized to specific neighborhoods In a 2016 study by the website 24/7 Wall Street Miami was rated as the worst U.S city in which to live based on crime poverty income inequality and housing costs that far exceed the national median. ; . See also: 1968 Miami riot Sloughs or free-flowing channels of water develop in between sawgrass prairies Sloughs are about 3 feet (0.91 m) deeper than sawgrass marshes and may stay flooded for at least 11 months out of the year and sometimes multiple years in a row Aquatic animals such as turtles alligators snakes and fish thrive in sloughs; they usually feed on aquatic invertebrates Submerged and floating plants grow here such as bladderwort (Utricularia) waterlily (Nymphaeaceae) and spatterdock (Nuphar lutea) Major sloughs in the Everglades system include the Shark River Slough flowing out to Florida Bay Lostmans River Slough bordering the Big Cypress and Taylor Slough in the eastern Everglades. . 3.7% Puerto Rican 18th to 19th centuries: Early non-Spanish settlement, The story of Florida International University's founding began in 1943 when state Senator Ernest 'Cap' Graham (father of future Florida governor and U.S senator Bob Graham) presented the state legislature with the initial proposal for the establishment of a public university in South Florida While his bill did not pass Graham persisted in presenting his proposal to colleagues advising them of Miami's need for a state university He felt the establishment of a public university was necessary to serve the city's growing population. The idea of a national park for the Everglades was pitched in 1928 when a Miami land developer named Ernest F Coe established the Everglades Tropical National Park Association it had enough support to be declared a national park by Congress in 1934 it took another 13 years to be dedicated on December 6 1947 One month before the dedication of the park a former editor from the Miami Herald and freelance writer named Marjory Stoneman Douglas released her first book titled the Everglades: River of Grass After researching the region for five years she described the history and ecology of the South Florida in great detail She characterized the Everglades as a river instead of a stagnant swamp the last chapter was titled "The Eleventh Hour" and warned that the Everglades were dying although it could be reversed. .
Alice Wainwright Park Brickell Hurricane Charley in 2004 moving ashore on South Florida's Gulf of Mexico coast. . . . . ! See also: List of tallest buildings in Miami, North Florida In 1957 North Dade Jr./Sr High School opened for grades seven through tenth grades As the years progressed the grades went higher until North Dade graduated its first class in 1960 After the class of 1966 it became a junior high school and it has remained so since junior high schools were phased out Also in this year Miami Dade Schools established the position of Security Assistant which would evolve into the Miami-Dade Public Schools Police Department. 1920 66,542 280.0% Miami Florida Business directory As of 2010 70.2% of Miami's population age five and over spoke only Spanish at home while 22.7% of the population spoke English at home About 6.3% spoke other Indo-European languages at home About 0.4% spoke Asian languages or Pacific Islander languages/Oceanic languages at home the remaining 0.3% of the population spoke other languages at home in total 77.3% spoke another language other than English.
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