Accomplishing the Milestone Staff members at Habitat Collier left their offices to the sound of a ringing bell to discover fellow coworkers in tears of joy, eventually congregating in the building’s common area. To great delight, the staff discovered that their...
The current affordable housing crisis in Collier County has been particularly detrimental to low wage earning families and their dreams of owning a safe, decent place to call home. Making matters worse, the crisis empowers many landlords to raise rents, refuse...
Off a Dirt Road Off to the side of a dirt road in Immokalee, a single number hangs from a washed out sign designating the address of four dilapidated trailers clustered in a field, one of which three generations of the Hipolita and Jose’s family call home....
Following row after row of decaying mobile homes, you will find the small trailer belonging to the Roberto and Mina’s family. Roberto, Mina, Roberto Jr., and Lemay have called this one bedroom, one bathroom camper trailer home for over a year. At 6-by-27 feet,...
Struggling to find nearby work, Virginia visited an area nursery to inquire about a job. Told that they had no jobs suitable for women, desperate, Virginia said that she would take anything. Now she drives an eighteen-wheeled semi-truck, having been given the...
Celebratory Final Mortgage Payment Made with the late Mary Ann Durso in Mind Just after making her final mortgage payment, Araceli wanted her celebratory photo to be taken in the lobby alongside her steward at Habitat for Humanity, the late Mary Ann Durso. “We...
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