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Duplicate and mismatched photographs in Miami-Dade's property appraisal database are skewing home valuations, complicating sales, and leaving residents to fight bureaucratic errors on their own.
Across Wynwood, Little Haiti, and Overtown, community members say outdated and duplicated property images in city databases are distorting how their blocks look to the outside world — and to the agencies that fund them.
From City Hall to Coconut Grove, the push to clean up Miami's public records databases has experts and city staff divided on how fast to move — and who should pay.
Thousands of Miami-Dade property listings carry mismatched or repeated images, creating confusion that ripples from real estate closings to insurance appraisals and neighborhood redevelopment plans.
Years of rushed digitization, siloed city departments, and two hurricane seasons' worth of emergency scanning left Miami's municipal archive riddled with redundant files; cleaning it up is proving harder than anyone expected.
A city audit this week flagged a backlog of repeated photographs inside Miami's public property database, prompting an emergency cleanup effort across multiple municipal departments.
A city-wide effort to digitize and clean up Miami's public property and permit photo records has stalled this week after staff discovered an estimated 40,000 duplicate image files clogging the new system.
A years-long backlog of misfiled, repeated, and low-resolution property photographs has quietly undermined the city's digital planning and tax infrastructure, and officials are only now confronting the full scope of the problem.
A technical glitch in Miami-Dade's online permitting system replaced thousands of homeowner-submitted images with duplicate placeholders, leaving residents scrambling to prove their property records are accurate.
Recycled and mismatched property images in online listings are misleading thousands of Miami residents and inflating expectations in one of the country's most competitive housing markets.
As the city grapples with the implications of duplicate image replacement, residents of Miami's Little Havana and Wynwood neighborhoods share their concerns and experiences.
A look into the history and current state of duplicate image replacement in Miami, exploring its impact on the city's visual identity and efforts to address the issue.
A years-long accumulation of redundant digital files in city databases has quietly inflated storage costs and slowed public access to property and permitting records.
City planners and preservation advocates face a turning point as Miami confronts how—and whether—to regulate the proliferation of copied architectural imagery across its fastest-growing neighborhoods.
A look into the history and current state of duplicate image replacement in Miami, and what it means for the city's residents and businesses.
Experts and key figures share their thoughts on the impact of duplicate image replacement on the city's digital landscape
A months-long effort to purge redundant and mislabeled photos from Miami's public-facing digital records hit a critical milestone, with the city's IT and communications offices announcing a coordinated cleanup before the holiday weekend.
A growing audit of Miami-Dade real estate databases reveals that duplicate and mismatched listing images are distorting buyer decisions and inflating perceived inventory across some of the city's hottest neighbourhoods.