The Rural Neighborhoods/Everglades Housing Group family would like to celebrate one of our own for achieving citizenship in the United States of America. Alexis Santana and his wife Rosa were sworn in as citizens on Thursday, August 31, 2017. Alexis and his wife came to the United States from Cuba approximately 13 years ago. In…
Rural Neighborhoods recently hosted its annual Back to School Event at its Everglades Village in Homestead. Each year RN hosts the event and invites community partners to participate and offer services to our 511 farmworker families. RN staff and volunteers handed out over 600 book bags at this exciting event. Other community groups that participated…
Deputy Regional Administrator Christopher Taylor and Miami Field Office staff, Uche Oluku, Ph.D. and Gloria Shanahan, toured Rural Neighborhoods’ housing developments in LaBelle and Immokalee to gain a better understanding of the use of HUD 202, CDBG and HOME resources in rural communities. President Steven Kirk and Neighborhood Revitalization Manager Dottie Cook talked with HUD…
20 young adults and church leaders from Palm Harbor United Methodist Church helped Rural Neighborhoods celebrate NeighborWorks America Week in early June. Each year, NeighborWorks America organizations, such as Rural Neighborhoods, work with volunteers and residents to improve communities and raise awareness about the power of engaged residents. Palm Harbor youth planted 30 coconut palm…
Rural Neighborhoods was recently awarded a $500,000 Project Reinvest grant to focus on neighborhood revitalization in the Eden Park area. A total of 55 grants were awarded nationwide, with Rural Neighborhoods’ application being one of only five selected from rural communities. Steve Kirk, President of Rural Neighborhoods, said “Project Reinvest provides the perfect opportunity to…
In connection with HUD celebrating National Healthy Homes Month in June, Rural Neighborhoods is undertaking a related initiative aimed at improving air quality for residents. Timber Ridge at Sanders Pines Reserve is becoming a smoke-free property to provide a safer, healthier environment for residents and their guests. The change will be phased in over the…
Rural Neighborhoods completed renovations to the first 10 units at its newly acquired Sanders Pines complex in Immokalee. Purchased in late October 2016, Rural Neighborhoods is working with DEC Contracting to renovate all 75 units at the Timber Ridge at Sanders Pines Reserve development. Another five units will be completed by the end of May…
U.S. Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart and Collier County Commissioners Penny Taylor and Bill McDaniel joined 125 guests to dedicate the Hatchers Preserve rental community on Monday, April 17th. Hatchers is a small, impactful 18-unit investment that is critical to Rural Neighborhoods’ Eden Park-Esperanza Place Neighborhood Revitalization work in Immokalee. The celebration took place as important housing programs such as the Community Development Block Grant and HOME Investment Partnership…
“Hatchers remains a small rental community, but there is no place we work where the sense of partnership has been greater than in the building these 18 units,” remarked Rural Neighborhoods President Steven Kirk as he opened the celebration of Hatchers Preserve. “Local government’s generosity was unmatched, and national partners, too, joined in to make Hatchers a more livable place not simply bricks and mortar.” Mr. Paul Weech, President of NeighborWorks…
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