Healthy Housing Initiative Funded
Step one helping 174 households age 55 and older enjoy new affordable housing was successful as Florida Housing Finance Corporation allocated tax credits for Rural Neighborhoods’ Deer Creek Senior Housing in Gainesville and Cannery Row at Redlands Crossing in Naranja. These new, planned rental communities of 62 and 112 units, respectively, are part of RN’s…
Immokalee was recently awarded Promise Zone designation by USDA and the Obama Administration. The Promise Zone program is highly competitive with only 22 communities in the nation receiving the designation. It is awarded to high-poverty areas that have a strong plan for revitalization and improvement. Immokalee (Collier County) partnered with Hendry and Glades County to…
Los residentes de Eden Park – Esperanza Place despertaron la mañana del 27 de junio con nuevas vibrantes estructuras en colores rojo y amarillo al norte y sur de la calle Westclox en rural Immokalee, FL. Adán Walls, premiado en numerosas ocasiones, fabricó y pintó estas alegres esculturas. La colocación de estas esculturas es parte…
A new group of residents recently graduated from Rural Neighborhoods’ Resident Leadership Academy (RLA) in Immokalee. The students spent three days developing new communication, team building and leadership skills. Their final task was to select a community project in which they want to get involved. Rural Neighborhoods’ RLA was facilitated by Carlos and Rocio Salgado…
Twisted aluminum siding, broken two-by-fours, and soaked insulation is all that remained of the four hundred trailers local fruit and vegetable pickers called home for two decades. That morning after Hurricane Andrew, Everglades Labor Camp was strewn in pieces across a farm field. Months later, Bob Jensen stepped in as the Chairperson of Everglades Community…
Unidos con HUD que celebra el Mes Nacional de Hogares Saludables en junio, Rural Neighborhoods está llevando a cabo una iniciativa relacionada con la mejoría de la calidad del aire para los residentes. Timber Ridge en Sanders Pines se está convirtiendo en una propiedad libre de humo de cigarrillo para proporcionar un ambiente más seguro…