Hollywood is in Broward County, Florida, between Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The average temperature is between 68 and 83 °F (20 and 28 °C). As of July 1, 2017, Hollywood had a population of 153,627.
Founded in 1925, the city grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, and is now the twelfth-largest city in Florida. Hollywood is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.

Joseph Wesley Young arrived in South Florida in 1920 to create what he called his own “Dream City in Florida.”
His vision included the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean stretching westward with man made lakes, infrastructure, roads and the Intracoastal waterway.
He wanted to include large parks, schools, churches, and golf courses; industries and activities which were very important to Young’s life.
Young spent millions of dollars on the construction of the city and was elected as the first mayor in 1925 and the new town quickly became home to northerners known as snowbirds (See our own website www.SnowbirdsNook.com ) and remains popular with them to this day. These snowbirds flee the north during the winter and then escape the south during the summer to avoid the harsh climates. By 1960, Hollywood contained more than 2,400 hotel units along with the construction of 12,170 single family homes. Young bought up thousands of acres of land around 1920, and named his new town “Hollywood by the Sea” to distinguish it from his other real estate venture, “Hollywood in the Hills”, in New York. 

Prospective purchasers of land were enticed by free hotel accommodation and entertainment, and “were driven about the city-to-be on trails blazed through palmetto thickets; so desolate and forlorn were some stretches that many women became hysterical, it is said, and a few fainted.
Young had a vision of having lakes, golf courses, a luxury beach hotel (Hollywood Beach Hotel, now Hollywood Beach Resort), country clubs, and a main street, Hollywood Boulevard. After the 1926 Miami hurricane, Hollywood was severely damaged; local newspapers reported that Hollywood was second only to Miami in losses from the storm. Following Young’s death in 1934, the city encountered other destructive hurricanes and the stock market crashed with personal financial misfortunes.

Following the damage inflicted by Hurricane Irma in 2017, an initiative called Rebuild Florida was created by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) to provide aid to citizens affected by the natural disaster. The initial focus of Rebuild Florida was its Housing Repair Program, which offered assistance in rebuilding families’ homes that were impacted by Hurricane Irma. The program priorities low-income vulnerable residents, such as the disabled,
the elderly and those families with children under five.