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…
Jeb and Columba Bush celebrated their 19th Christmas with RN at Everglades Village hosting the rental community’s nearly 200 teenagers to food, gifts and entertainment. New York-based musical theater actor Will Thomason and choreographer/dancer Angela Joy presented two performance sets to the assembled young adults and sponsors. This tradition began in 1999 during Jeb Bush’s…
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…
The December calendar was marked by holiday celebrations from Homestead-Florida City to Immokalee, Labelle and points north and east. Thanks to site managers, volunteers and generous supporters, more than a dozen celebrations took place. Events ranged from a neighborhood pot-luck celebration at Manatee Village in Ruskin to Santa Claus’ arrival at Timber Ridge at Sanders…
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…
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISK) ha nombrado a El Representante Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla) Campeón de polizas rurales por sus esfuerzos para apoyar programas vitales de vivienda que ayudan a las familias en el sur de Florida a prosperar. El congresista de ocho mandatos preside el Subcomité de Asignaciones de la Cámara de Representantes para Transporte,…
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