The Miami Herald – Neighbors
DASH students design homes for the homeless
By Michael Sharp
Eric Hankin, teacher at Design Architecture Senior High, a magnet school in Miami’s Design District, created a project for his students that would give them hands-on experience, as well as benefit the homeless.
“I like the idea of exposing students to real-life projects,” said ...
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24
NOV
Florida Trend
Florida Life: Free Falling
By Lori Capullo
Paola Roman, 33
Vice President of Housing Development, Carrfour Supportive Housing
"My reson for wanting to skydive was twofold," Paola Roman says. "One, I envy the freedom that birds have and I wanted to try it out – silly, I know, but I'm a free spirit like that – and two, I ...
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1
NOV
Real Estate Bisnow
Affordable Housing Demand Vast, Supply Small
By Dees Stribling
Snapped at a recent housing lottery: Carrfour CEO Stephanie Berman-Eisenberg, along with Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro. One thing the lottery provided is that the demand for affordable housing in South Florida in nearly bottomless. When Carrfour prepared to put 44 affordable units in its Amistad development in Little Havana up ...
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31
OCT
GlobeSt.com
Carrfour Determined to End Homelessness in Miami
By Jennifer LeClaire
When it comes to affordable housing in Miami, developers have made great strides over the past 20 years. But there’s much more work to do.
Carrfour Supportive Housing has providing housing for more than 10,000 Miami-Dade County residents over the past 20 years but has a greater goal in mind: ending ...
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29
OCT
Real Estate Bisnow
Carrfour Fights Homelessness
Carrfour Supportive Housing, Florida's largest nonprofit affordable housing developer, recently hosted over 200 at an art show at Villa Aurora, its Little Havana property, to celebrate the developer's 20th anniversary. Proceeds benefited the organization's mission to put an end to homelessness in South Florida. Carrfour recently received a grant to fund its Learning Kitchen and Farmer's ...
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5
SEP
Multi-Housing News
Carrfour Property Receives Grant to Create Urban Farm
By Dees Stribling, Contributing Editor
The Health Foundation of South Florida has awarded Carrfour Supportive Housing, a major Florida affordable housing developer, a $28,800 grant to fund its Learning Kitchen and Farmer’s Market Training Program. The program is at Verde Gardens, a Carrfour multifamily property in Homestead, which is a suburb ...
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6
AUG
South Florida Business Journal
SFBJ ’13 Influential Business Women
The South Florida Business Journal is proud to again honor 25 of the region’s top businesswomen those who have gone above and beyond, not just for their companies, but for the communities they serve.This year’s honorees came from varied backgrounds, but have all worked equally hard to ...
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26
JUL
GlobeSt.com
Carrfour Leads Affordable Playground Project
By Jennifer LeClaire
More than 200 volunteers joined Carrfour Supportive Housing, Miami-Dade Homeless Trust, the Knight Foundation and KaBOOM! to build playground in less than eight hours on Saturday. The playground fulfills the dreams of hundreds of formerly homeless children who live at Verde Gardens, an affordable housing community in Homestead, FL.
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25
MAR
Commercial Property Executive
Harvard House Apartments Re-Opens After Major Renovation
By Georgiana Mihaila
A formerly distressed North Miami Beach apartment complex recently reopened after undergoing an $8 million redevelopment process led by nonprofit affordable housing developers Carrfour Supportive Housing and the National Housing Trust.
The redevelopment of Harvard House Apartments was made possible through support from the U.S. Department of Housing ...
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22
MAR
Diario las Americas
Niños Diseñan Su Patio De Juegos
Por Iliana Lavastida Rodríguez
La devastación dejada por el huracán Andrew hace 20 años en unos 22 acres de tierra de una antigua base aérea en Homestead es el preludio de esta historia.
La selección del terreno para construir una comunidad que ofreciera viviendas de costo asequible fue el origen del proyecto y ...
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21
JAN