Longtime Rural Neighborhoods volunteer, Antonia Rios’, recently spoke about her immigrant experience with PBS station WUFT. Rios’ Eden Park home in Immokalee was damaged by Hurricane Irma in 2017 and was among the more than 70 owner-occupied dwellings rehabbed by Rural Neighborhoods with financial assistance from the Community Foundation of Collier County and American Red…
It seems it was just months ago RN was awarded funds to construct seventeen rental homes on Big Pine Key – Florida’s Ground Zero for the 2017 Hurricane Irma landfall in 2017. That disaster recovery effort is growing larger. Florida Housing Finance Corporation and CenterState Bank pledged $3.3M to construct nine units at Seahorse Cottages…
Rural Neighborhoods was one of 11 community organizations to receive a grant from Trinity by-the-Cove Episcopal Church in February. RN will use the generous donation to further its $2.5 million renovation at its Timber Ridge at Sanders Pines apartment complex in Immokalee. Specifically, the funds will cover improvements to the newly created community garden and…
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…
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