Healthy Housing Initiative Funded

Residents at Rural Neighborhoods’ Everglades Village in Homestead and Miami-Dade Police Department officers were busy dressing up the entrance to the 511-unit rental community with new plants and signage recently. Director of Property Management, Michael Botelho, remarked “by the end of the day all agreed we planted as much trust in each other as the…
Total financing of $94M closed October 11, 2024, commencing new construction of the 252-unit Renaissance Hall rental community in suburban Golden Gate. The project is financed in part by U.S. Department of Treasury (under Federal Award Number 1505-0271) and Collier County Community & Human Services Division, PGIM’s HUD 221(d)(4) program, Collier’s International, Collier County’s and…
Rural Neighborhoods completó la renovación de las primeras 10 unidades recientemente adquiridas en Sanders Pines en Immokalee. Este proyecto se compró a finales de octubre del 2016. Rural Neighborhoods está trabajando con DEC Contracting para renovar las 75 unidades en Timber Ridge en Sanders Pines. Cinco unidades se completarán a finales de mayo, el resto…
Natural disasters bring out the best in our communities. Bank partners boosted relief efforts with timely goods and capital after Hurricane Irma. CenterState Bank provided 8,000 bags of ice to residents in Eden Park-Esperanza Place in Immokalee and Everglades Village in Florida City as low-income residents awaited power restoration. Fifth Third, Bank United and TIAA/Everbank…
Fordham University students partnered with Rural Neighborhoods to help an Immokalee resident with some much-needed yard work. The nine students spent four hours trimming bushes and spreading dirt to level her yard and make it safer for walking. They also helped remove old fence posts and install supports for a new fence to help keep…
Fashion designer Gwendolyn Gleason is teaching Immokalee residents to sew. Each Tuesday afternoon, a group of women, some of whom have never sewed before, attend her class to develop their sewing skills. Many women use the skills to make or repair clothes for their families, while others already sew for friends and are seeking ways…