Independent Lens

Razing Liberty Square

By Katja Esson. A co-production of RLS Film LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), in association with Black Public Media.

Liberty City, Miami, was home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the U.S. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood’s higher ground has become something else: real estate gold. Wealthy property owners push inland to higher ground, creating a speculators’ market in the historically Black neighborhood previously ignored by developers and policy-makers alike.