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Resident Leadership Academy Graduates
Ten participants recently completed Rural Neighborhoods’ first Resident Leadership Academy in Immokalee. The Leadership Academy was designed to help residents expand their skills in areas like communication, resolving conflicts, and working in teams. The group also learned about ways to get involved to improve the community. The three-day class ended with participants breaking into groups…
Bank United, FHFC and Casa Amigos
In late May, BankUnited and Florida Housing Finance Corporation closed loans to Rural Neighborhoods for its newest rental community in Immokalee, FL. Nearly $6M was raised to build 96 SRO beds targeting low-income, H-2a visa worker and agricultural labor housing. Rural continues to serve as a national leader in housing models serving farmworkers and Casa…
Eden Park Clean-Up
Code Enforcment, the Sheriff’s Office and Rural Neighborhoods recently participated in a clean-up in and around the Eden Park neighborhood in Immokalee. Code Enforcement placed dumpsters at Sanders Pines allowing people to dump unwanted items for free. By the end of the day, residents dumped more than 10 tons of garbage and debris. The Sheriff’s…
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…
NeighborWorks America and LISC Join Hatchers Celebration
“Hatchers remains a small rental community, but there is no place we work where the sense of partnership has been greater than in the building these 18 units,” remarked Rural Neighborhoods President Steven Kirk as he opened the celebration of Hatchers Preserve. “Local government’s generosity was unmatched, and national partners, too, joined in to make Hatchers a more livable place not simply bricks and mortar.” Mr. Paul Weech, President of NeighborWorks…
New Senior Housing Under Construction in LaBelle
Rural Neighborhoods is constructing 29 senior housing units for rent in LaBelle, Florida. The units will be part of Rural Neighborhoods’ Pollywog Creek Apartments located off Jaycee Lions Drive, just north of Winn Dixie. They will be available to tenants in early 2017. The development fills a need for low-income housing for seniors in LaBelle….