Buildings

Hatchers Preserve

Hatchers Preserve

Overview of Neighborhood Located in the Eden Park area of Immokalee, Hatchers Preserve offers 18 single-family rental units for low-income families.  All units have 3 bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a laundry room with connections for washers and dryers.  Leasing for the units is handled off–site at our Eden Gardens office.   Designed by LaBelle architect, Ted…

Esperanza Place

Esperanza Place

Overview of Neighborhood Esperanza Place offers 48 one, two, and three bedroom units for families working in agriculture.  The complex also has a laundry room, computer room, basketball court, and small play area for children.   Located near downtown, the site is easily accessible to shopping, schools, and other community amenities. The property is part of…

Timber Ridge at Sanders Pines

Timber Ridge at Sanders Pines

Overview of Neighborhood Rural Neighborhoods recently acquired this property from Immokalee Housing and Family Services and is in the process of renovating its 75 units.  The Timber Ridge portion of the complex is located off Carson Road and includes 34 rental, single-family homes with 3 or 4 bedrooms and single-car garages.  The homes surround the…

Pollywog Creek Senior

Pollywog Creek Senior

Overview of Neighborhood Pollywog Creek Senior Housing offers affordable housing for 29 elderly households in LaBelle.  Funded under the HUD 202 Supportive Housing for Elderly program, Pollywog Creek Senior opened in late 2018. Built around a tree-lined park replete with picnic pavilion, paths, sports courts and tot lot, the new senior apartments border parents and…

Reserve at Eden Gardens

Reserve at Eden Gardens

Overview of Neighborhood Located in the Eden neighborhood of Immokalee, the Reserve at Eden Gardens offers 92 single-family, townhouse and garden apartments to families engaged in agricultural or formerly homeless. The picturesque neighborhood completed in 2009 set aside one-third of its acreage as restored wetlands and conserved upland. Our environmental actions brought back a much-degraded…

Pollywog Creek Commons

Pollywog Creek Commons

Overview of Neighborhood Sometimes our projects stimulate municipal reinvestment – other times we follow at the heels of public investment like parks and sports fields and boost neighborhood momentum. Pollywog Creek Commons is a distinctive rental community just off Main Street in the heart of LaBelle’s downtown. Round the corner from the town’s elementary school…

Orchid Grove

Orchid Grove

Overview of Neighborhood Orchid Grove helped reclaim a Florida City, FL neighborhood in 2010 by investing new capital and transforming a once barren urban infill lot into a stunning residential asset. Municipal reinvestment followed: streets, curbs and sidewalks have been rebuilt for blocks in every direction. In taking on problems in this once troubled setting,…

Oaks at Shannon’s Crossing

Oaks at Shannon’s Crossing

Overview of Neighborhood Nearby Taylor Creek provided habitation to the first settlers north of Lake Okeechobee and now is home to a hundred families at our Oaks at Shannon’s Crossing. Built in 2008, this innovative USDA and LIHTC financed rental community was the first in Florida to combine Rural Development Section 514 loan funds with…

Metro Dade Farm Labor

Metro Dade Farm Labor

Overview of Neighborhood Located at the west end of Everglades Village, Metro Dade Farm Labor encompasses 66 single-family homes on 14 acres. Built by the Miami-Dade Public Housing Authority in 1982, these 2-, 3- 4- and 5-bedroom homes were purchased by Rural Neighborhoods in 2004 to help create a cohesive rental community. These older homes…

Manatee Village SRO

Manatee Village SRO

Overview of Neighborhood Imagine arriving in one of the largest agricultural production areas in the East to no place to sleep. Unaccompanied workers are usually faced with the “last-least” shelter in rural America: isolated units or ones far below building code requirements making it the “least” desirable housing in a local area and the “last”…

Manatee Village

Manatee Village

Overview of Neighborhood From wooded garden apartments to townhouse and duplex homes, Manatee Village offers residents a choice of remarkable living environments in southernmost Hillsborough County. Its companion, Manatee Village SRO rental community, even offers shared rental accommodations to the local unaccompanied workforce. From the modern metal work and Mondrian-patterned paint of the newest phase…

Main Street Village

Main Street Village

Overview of Neighborhood In 2000, Rural Neighborhoods launched the first new housing development in Immokalee in over a decade. Downtown at 11th and Main Street, our 79 garden-style apartments and clubhouse offer an attractive landscaped setting and affordable rents all within blocks of jobs, shopping, childcare and schools. In the decade since construction, Main Street…

Everglades Village

Overview of Neighborhood It takes a village…. So the saying goes! If so, Everglades Village is a remarkable one to call home – a special collection of committed partners, generous resources, livable space and more than five hundred hard-working families. Located just 5 miles from Everglades National Park in the Redland, the national award-winning, 120-acre…

Cypress Cove

Cypress Cove

Overview of Neighborhood In a central Florida neighborhood that had withered for decades, it once was hard to see a different future. Dilapidated homes had been razed; refuse and weeds covered neighborhood lots. In 2010, Rural Neighborhoods and its development partner Pinnacle Housing Group said, “We can change that.” Cypress Cove is a catalyst for…

Casa Cesar Chavez

Casa Cesar Chavez

Overview of Neighborhood Residing at Casa Cesar Chavez offers an unmatched respite for single farm laborers, food service workers and day laborers or those arriving in Miami-Dade for work without family members. It’s not easy to find an inexpensive apartment, turn on the lights and water, post deposits, find roommates and divvy up expenses. Then…

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