Hundreds of people packed a 100-year-old house in Miami's Shenandoah neighborhood on Tuesday, July 14, for a farewell art show before the building's scheduled demolition, the Miami Herald reported. The event put a human face on a countywide housing squeeze that has reshaped neighborhoods from Little Havana to the Sunny Isles Beach oceanfront.

Sophia Corugedo, 27, organized "The Turning of a Century" with friend Sofia Victoria Villalonga after learning in March 2026 that her lease would be cut short. A realtor informed Corugedo she had until Wednesday, July 15 to vacate. Her lease was originally set to run through December 2026.

The home, built during Miami's first development boom in the early 1920s, had been divided into four units. Corugedo and her neighbors cleared the empty shell, set up a DJ table and a makeshift stage, and invited about 40 artists to display paintings, pottery, and poetry.

At the entrance, a white table held keepsakes and ornamental photo frames. Candles on the windowsill bore labels reading "We won't be moved." In a back unit, a projector played a film while a speaker cycled through sounds of birds and frogs before being drowned out by a loud buzz of drilling.

Celia Almeida, 37, who lived in the front unit with her twin sister for five years, wore a black veil and read a eulogy she had written for the house.

"We saw the parallels between the 1925 land boom and now 2025 and 2026," Villalonga said. "Nobody pays attention to issues sometimes until it's at your front door."

Lucia Morales, 24, a freelance architect who displayed shallow bowls with colorful glazes at the event, said displacement is spreading beyond Shenandoah into Coconut Grove and Coral Gables. She said she worries her own neighborhood is next.

The numbers behind the squeeze

The pressures driving this demolition are countywide. According to Realtor.com data from December 2025, million-dollar properties made up 68% of all home sales in Miami-Dade County. In February 2020, about 24% of available single-family inventory was priced below $350,000. By February 2026, that share had fallen to roughly 3.5%.

Miami-Dade single-family home prices rose 157.4% over the decade ending October 2025, climbing from $265,000 to $682,000, according to the Miami Association of Realtors' most recent available figures. Million-dollar-and-up transactions increased 19.7% year-over-year that same month.

No information has been released about what will replace the Shenandoah home. The developer's name and project plans remain unknown.