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Protecting Everyone
Rural Neighborhoods and two south Florida non-profit organizations urged Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez to reconsider his executive action to comply with ICE non-binding, two-day “detainer” requests after President Donald Trump threatened to deny unspecified Federal grants to cities and counties that don’t fully cooperate with immigration authorities. The heads of the Coalition of Florida Farmworker Organizations and Centro Campesino joined Steven Kirk…
Board Chairman Lopez Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award
Rural Neighborhoods Chairperson Arturo Lopez, Executive Director of the Coalition of Florida Farmworker Organizations, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Farmworker Justice, a national nonprofit organization founded in 1981 that seeks to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions. The June 13th reception held in Washington, DC honored Lopez for…
Cannery Row Wins $3.5M Recommendation
Cannery Row at Redland Crossing, our planned 112-unit senior housing rental community in the Naranja neighborhood north of Homestead, received $3.5M Miami-Dade Documentary Stamp Surtax Program funding in November. This financing — derived from an additional levy on documents that transfer interests in Florida real property — closes the remaining gap in Rural Neighborhood’s $33M,…
Rural Partners with Keys Community Land Trust
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…
We’re in the Book!
Rural Neighborhoods is honored to be a co-author in the book NeighborWorks Works: Practical Solutions from America’s Community Development Network. The recently released publication consists of case studies of the best work being done in community development as well as innovative solutions in affordable housing. Our excerpt “Nonprofit Takeovers: Tools for Tough Times” describes our…
Students for Children Visit Sanders Pines
Students for Children recently held a fun day at Rural Neighborhoods’ Sanders Pines rental complex in Immokalee. The Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) students played games with the children, did crafts, and helped them decorate cookies. Approximately 30 children attended and enjoyed interacting with the FGCU students. Students for Children is…