Centro Campesino receives $500,000 grant for rural housing
RURAL HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FY2000 GRANTS
PROJECT SUMMARY
Florida
The Centro Campesino Farmworker Center Inc. in Florida City will receive a Rural Housing and Economic Development Grant in the amount of $500,000. This innovative activities grant will enhance the homebuyer counseling at Villa Lego and assist in the development of 103 units of homeowner housing for farmworkers in Palm Beach County. The project will serve low and very low income farmworkers. Proposed cash and in-kind leveraging resources total approximately $9 million. Key partners include: Palm Beach County Community Financing Corporation Consortium and the First Bank of Clewiston.
Contact Person: Steve Mainster
Grantee Address: 35801 SW 186th Avenue, Florida City, FL 33034
Telephone Number: (305) 245-7738
This information was taken from the HUD website. http://www.hud.gov/library/bookshelf18/pressrel/florida.html
