NeighborWorks America’s Strategic Investment Fund helped support geographic expansion of Rural Neighborhood’s shared-housing model and that seed money is reaping dividends! Casa Amigos – a 96-bed, 28-unit rental community at Esperanza Place in Immokalee recently received a $5.15M commitment from Florida Housing Finance Corporation toward 2020 construction. Our shared-housing model enables unrelated adults to share…
Maggie Whitcomb established the Florida Keys Community Land Trust in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Irma by assembling lots throughout Big Pine Key for the rebuilding of what was “ground zero” on September 10th, 2017. Generous local giving helped the land trust break ground on its four-initial, scattered- site Keys Cottages and set aside six…
Volunteers from Palm Harbor United Methodist Church impacted Rural Neighborhoods’ youth and families in Immokalee. The group, which has been visiting RN’s Sanders Pines complex for more than eight years, led a week-long summer camp for youth. The Sanders Pines youth look forward to their visit each year and re-connecting with the middle and high…
It’s creative placemaking at Timber Ridge at Sanders Pines Reserves. Street art by Brazilian graffiti artist Binho Ribeiro infuses our rental community with creative fun. The shipping containers mark the new community garden and future basketball court. They were funded through NeighborWorks’ Project Reinvest and Rural LISC to support our inclusion of public arts in…
Debbie Murcarsel-Powell joined a Rural Neighborhoods-hosted, post-election get-together with local businesses and officials at Key West’s Waterfront Brewery on December 14th. Murcarsel-Powell takes office January 3rd as the nation’s first South-American born member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She is a strong advocate committed to protecting Florida’s 26th Congressional district against the impacts of…
Florida Housing Finance Corporation awarded Housing Credits and SAIL funds to Rural Neighborhoods as the developer of two critical workforce housing projects in the Florida Keys. The $12.1M Dockside at Sugarloaf Key and $21.2M The Landings at Sugarloaf Key will offer 28 and 60 newly-constructed units to Lower Keys households earning up to 120% of…
El mes pasado, Rural LISC anunció que Rural Neighborhoods fue una de las 18 organizaciones comunitarias que presta servicios a comunidades rurales en 16 estados para recibir fondos en virtud de su iniciativa de arte y cultura. Estas subvenciones fueron generadas por Rural LISK Cohesive Economic Development Initiative que apoyan programas y proyectos que se…
Rural Neighborhoods se asoció con En Familia de Homestead para ofrecer su primer campamento de Artes en Immokalee durante el verano. Parks and Recreation and Conservation del Condado de Collier patrocinaron este campamento que se llevó a cabo en el hermoso Pepper Ranch de Immokalee. 15 estudiantes tomaron parte de este campamento y los participantes…
Los Servicios de Desastres Menonitas (MDS), en colaboración con Rural Neighborhoods y la Coalición de necesidades de Immokalee, completaron recientemente las reparaciones críticas de un hogar que sufrió daños en el techo y el interior causados por el huracán Irma. La casa no era habitable debido a los agujeros en el techo por donde pasaba…
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