Rural Neighborhoods honored Liz Conchola as its Friends and Neighbors 2016 Volunteer of the Year for her tireless and invaluable work in our Back-to-School and Holiday Celebrations. Liz and her team sponsored book bags and school supplies at the start of the 2016-2017 school year and holiday gifts this Christmas Season for more than 500 children and adolescents residing in Rural Neighborhood communities. Thanks Liz!
Residents at Rural Neighborhoods’ Everglades Village in Homestead and Miami-Dade Police Department officers were busy dressing up the entrance to the 511-unit rental community with new plants and signage recently. Director of Property Management, Michael Botelho, remarked “by the end of the day all agreed we planted as much trust in each other as the…
May 18, 2016 article from Naples Daily News, written by Maria Perez. Like many areas of Collier County, residential development is slowly picking up in Immokalee, where developers are building new homes for low-income renters and for buyers willing to pay $179,900 or more. Nonprofit Rural Neighborhoods expects to finish construction of 18 single-family homes…
Rural Neighborhoods recently received funding under Rural LISC’s Healthy Housing Initiative in which it awarded $560,000 to 37 agencies. Rural Neighborhoods’ My Community, My Health Initiative is the health component of Rural Neighborhoods’ Eden Park-Esperanza Place (EP2) Mi Casa – Kominote M Revitalization Plan. Rural Neighborhoods will implement smoke-free housing for 219 households at the Eden Gardens, Esperanza Place and Main…
Florida Housing Finance Corporation announced funding to two new construction projects sponsored by Rural Neighborhoods. Everglades Village Phase 5.6, a 20-unit farmworker-targeted addition to our Florida City 511-unit campus received $4.3M in a recent invitation to credit underwriting. In Labelle and Hendry County, Rural will broaden its current senior and farmworker assets through Pollywog Creek…
Collier County Commission Chairwoman Donna Fiala recently appointed Rural Neighborhoods President, Steven Kirk, to a newly-formed Housing Stakeholder Committee. The group is to provide oversight to local government as it constructs a Community Housing Plan to address the housing needs of local residents. The planning process will begin in the Fall 2016. The Board of…
More than a decade ago Rural Neighborhoods unsuccessfully sought a unique parcel in west Miami-Dade shared at the time with the U.S. Post Office. Now, 15 years later, Rural Neighborhoods has purchased the General Partner interest in the 55-unit senior living community as it continues to serve the neighborhood post-tax credit expiration. La Cabana and…