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BankUnited, a Miami Lakes, Florida based national bank, joined in this year’s Super Bowl celebration through a $54,000 sweepstakes that would go to one lucky winner if either the Chiefs of 49ers scored a two-point conversion.

When that didn’t happen, BankUnited Chairman Rajinder P. Singh awarded the money to three local nonprofits that help South Floridians “achieve their dreams.”

Singh called the sweepstakes a celebration of “those who go for more in their personal and professional lives.”

Contributing $18,000 of ...

Miami Project for Low-Income and Formerly Homeless Families Opens

Developers Carrfour Supportive Housing and Green Mills Group deliver 88 units of needed housing. 

By Christine Serlin

Florida developers Carrfour Supportive Housing and Green Mills Group have completed an 88-unit development to serve low-income and formerly homeless families, including veterans, in Miami’s Goulds neighborhood.

Karis Village is ...

Carrfour, Green Mills Deliver $30M, Veteran-Focused Affordable Housing Development in Miami

By Camren Skelton

Karis Village is located at 11885 S.W. 216th St. in Miami’s Goulds neighborhood.

Carrfour Supportive Housing, in conjunction with Green Mills Group, has opened Karis Village, a $30 million affordable housing community located at 11885 S.W. 216th St. in Miami’s Goulds neighborhood.

Karis Village includes ...

With $400,000 Grant, Liberty City Gets a Village for Homeless Disabled Veterans

By Tyrone Lomax, Jr. 

Thanks to funding from The Home Depot Foundation's Veterans Housing Program, Carrfour's Liberty Village community will open in late 2017. 

The nonprofit Carrfour Supportive Housing has received a grant — its second — from The Home Depot Foundation (THDF)’s ...

First Affordable LGBT Senior Housing to Rise in South Florida 

By Samantha Goldberg

Carrfour Supportive Housing and the Pride Center are developing the apartment community, which marks the first phase of the master-planned redevelopment of the five-acre Equality Park campus.

Hoping to provide more housing options to one of South Florida’s underserved populations, Miami-based non-profit Carrfour Supportive Housing ...

Partnership to spend $6.5 million on rehabilitating Liberty City apartments

By Sean Stewart-Muniz

In an effort to curb Miami’s homeless population, developer Carrfour Supportive Housing has announced a $6.5 million renovation plan in Liberty City. 

Carrfour plans to begin renovations of 34 rental units at 1255 Northwest 58th Street next month with a projected completion date of ...

Florida Kitchen Serves Up Sunshine Rolls, Jobs

By Malcolm Burnley

It’s safe to say the newest tactic for fighting homelessness in South Florida has never been attempted before: sunshine rolls. Lots of them. They’re being baked en masse at Miami-Dade County’s Verde Community Farm & Market, a supportive-housing community for more than 500 people in Homestead, ...

Seeds of Change: Verde Community Farm in Homestead is Helping to Grow South Miami-Dade's Foodie Appeal

By Caitlyn Granfield

Parts of the former Homestead Air Force Base, left vacant for more than two decades after Hurricane Andrew’s fury, have been reborn as a 22-acre organic farm and farmers market, an eco-friendly housing complex for the formerly homeless, ...

The Achiever: Stephanie Berman-Eisenberg Leads Carrfour in Aiding to House the Underserved

By Susan Danseyar 

As president and CEO of Carrfour Supportive Housing, Stephanie Berman-Eisenberg notes a lot of misconceptions about the homeless and hopes this population will receive more empathy. Homelessness can occur for a number of ...

New Lease on Life: Redeveloped Project Provides Needed Affordable Housing in Miami

By Christine SerlinFor Miami-based Carrfour Supportive Housing, a leading nonprofit developer in Florida, its main mission has been to provide housing and services for formerly homeless individuals. But the developer has seen how tough it is for these households to move into other housing after they are back on their feet.Over ...