Another nonprofit helping people keep their homes!
"As a certified Community Development Financial Institution, SELF’s mission is to rebuild and empower underserved communities by providing access to affordable and innovative financing for sustainable home improvements."
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Nonprofit helps fund home repair projects in minority communities on Treasure Coast
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Imagine juggling two or three jobs when the unexpected happens: your roof collapses or your kitchen floods. “It was difficult to deal with,” said Pamela Turner, who is a single mom living in a two...Please take this survey to help improve access to healthcare resources in an equitable way for everyone in Northeast Florida.
The Jacksonville Nonprofit Hospital Partnership, (Baptist Medical Center, Ascension St. Vincent's, UF Health, Mayo Florida, Brooks Rehabilitation and Wolfson Children's Hospital) with assistance from the Health Planning Council of Northeast Florida, is conducting a regional Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA).
Every resident in Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau, and St. Johns Counties is invited to complete a 10 minute survey by clicking on the link below.
Information gathered from the survey will be used in the hospitals’ strategic planning processes and guide their community benefit implementation plans.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/health_counts
The real success of Giving Day 2021 will not be how much money we raise but the tremendous impact those dollars will have when nonprofits across your community put them to work!
Join the giving on May 5th at www.givingday2021.com
#GivingDay2021
St. Johns Housing Partnership has earned the 2021 Bronze Seal of Transparency from GuideStar by Candid.
Learn more at www.guidestar.org/profile/59-3422856
Learn about green building at this free event on Tuesday, April 13th at noon.
"Join the Florida Green Building Coalition (FGBC) on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 12 PM EST for our “Lunch and Learn” free webinar series delving into the “Building Blocks of Green Building."
We’ll “build” from the ground up to help you understand how easy it is to build green and live healthy instead of just building new.
Join experts about each phase of the process and join walk-throughs of houses in various stages of green construction.
We will close each webinar with a Q&A so you can get questions answered.
The webinars are hosted by FGBC and volunteers from the FGBC Realty, Appraiser, Builder Outreach Committee."
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Free Webinar: Building Blocks of Green Building
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Free Webinar: Building Blocks of Green BuildingAt St. Johns Housing Partnership, we believe that 2nd chances matter. Many thanks to Operation New Hope for all they're doing to help people in our community.
"We’ve now hired three Ready4Work graduates and they have all been so amazing. They are motivated and a pleasure to work with.
It really speaks to the quality of the Ready4Work program. All have arrived professionally dressed and prepared which is often not the norm in the construction field.
Ready4Work clients obviously get the support they need, and we’re proud to be a part of the opportunity for a second chance.”
operationnewhope.org/2021/04/05/second-chance-supporter-st-johns-housing-partnership/
Great community partnership!
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Take a look at the City of St. Augustine's Community Redevelopment Agency's Annual Report and learn about the projects from 2020 in the city and in Lincolnville.
www.facebook.com/citystaug/photos/a.1555253131355743/2847059458841764/Check out the report: bit.ly/3spCqi6
The Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) Annual Report for Fiscal Year 20 is now available!
The report, prepared by Jaime D. Perkins, MPA, CRA Administrator, outlines projects, expenditures, and highlights of the fiscal year for the:
• City of St. Augustine Community Redevelopment Agency
• Historic Transportation and Parking Community Redevelopment Area
• Lincolnville Community Redevelopment Area
#CityStAug #CityStAugCRA
Another home saved!
Our HUD Certified Housing Counselor Lisa Burns assisted the homeowner with a loss mitigation package. She worked with the homeowner and his lender until a modification was approved.
The 82-year-old widower went into foreclosure after his wife passed away and was referred to us by Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc.
The homeowner and St. Johns Housing Partnership would like to thank our funders and partners! Thank you NCRC-HUD, TIAA, and Jacksonville Area Legal Aid!
If you know anyone that's in danger of losing their home and needs help, please have them call us at (904) 819-1266!
Please consider a donation of any amount to help with foreclosure prevention. Thank you.
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Great job Lisa!!!
Go Lisa Anne Burns ! 👏👏👏
So happy for this sweet man! Congrats Lisa!
🎉🎉🎉 way to go Lisa Anne Burns💕
Job well done. Congratulations!
Ty congrats
Awesome!!
Lisa is amazing !
The Health Planning Council of Northeast Florida is asking all residents living in Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties to participate in the Community Health Needs Assessment survey which is available until April 23rd at the link below.
Leaders from Ascension St. Vincent’s, Baptist Health, Brooks Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic and UF Health Jacksonville constitute the Jacksonville Nonprofit Hospital Partnership.
Information gathered from the survey will be used in the hospitals’ strategic planning processes and guide their
community benefit implementation plans.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/health_counts
Mr. R. has a ramp!
A few weeks ago we shared with you the story of our disabled client who had triple bypass surgery and was in need of a ramp.
Many thanks to St. Vincent de Paul - St. Augustine, Creekside High School Engineering Club, students from Patriot Oaks Academy, Fruit Cove Academy, and another long-time collaborator Jay Heather.
Please consider a donation of any amount to help elderly and low-income neighbors in need of home repairs that are health- and safety-related.
sjhp.networkforgood.com/projects/98955-how-can-you-help-sjhp-help-our-community
What a wonderful project!
They did a wonderful job very friendly and god loving people . There are gardening angel .Thank you so much .Great Team work .
I know an elderly lady who needs a place to live. I'm willing to let her live in a house that I own, but it needs work. How can I get some assistance with fixing it up for her?
Thank you so much for a wonderful job the porch and ramp look amazing!!! ❤
Praise. God. Loving people. In st johns county. Yay.
Good Job!
Great job!
Take a look at the newly released Gap Report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC).
This eye-opening report details the national housing crisis and shows that the housing crisis has been exacerbated by the COVID- 19 pandemic -- induced by a loss of employment and an unusually high priced housing market for both homeownership and rentals.
Fixing the chronic shortage of affordable and available housing for the lowest-income renters requires long-term commitments.
reports.nlihc.org/sites/default/files/gap/Gap-Report_2021.pdf
"Sweeping* affordable housing dollars is a perennial debate.
House Speaker Chris Sprowls and Senate President Wilton Simpson announced plans to fund key infrastructure programs by redirecting documentary stamp tax dollars that currently go to the affordable housing trust fund."
*Sweeping is a more palatable way to say stealing.
From The Sadowski Coalition.
"The private sector in Florida provides affordable housing.
In 1991, The Florida Home Builders Association (FHBA) and the Florida Realtors intent on creating jobs in the housing construction industry and getting more low and moderate income families into home ownership, respectively, asked the Florida Legislature to increase the transfer fee on all real property transactions (a fee/tax on their industry) and dedicate that increment to the state and local housing trust funds. These trust funds are referred to as the Sadowski state and local housing trust funds.
Several statutory parameters were “must haves” for these industry groups. These include:
1) That the monies be dedicated solely for affordable housing;
2) That most of the funds (75%) are used for construction related activities (that does not mean new construction- rehabilitation or refurbishing substandard properties meets the construction related requirement); and,
3) That most of the local housing trust funds (65%) are used for home ownership related activities (this also is not restricted to new home ownership- rehabilitation or refurbishing substandard homes meets the home ownership requirement)."
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Chris Sprowls and Wilton Simpson's infrastructure plan pulls from affordable housing fund
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Sweeping affordable housing dollars is a perennial debate.We need your help TODAY. On March 23rd, the Florida legislative leadership released a joint press release announcing plans to redirect Sadowski State and Local Trust Fund monies.
The Florida House Agriculture and Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee is voting on PCB-ANR 20-01 Thursday morning at 11:30 a.m.
From St. Johns Housing Partnership’s Executive Director Bill Lazar:
Please contact Representative Stevenson, her contact information is below. She knows the need for affordable housing is growing. During her tenure as a county commissioner, she supported major local initiatives that produced several hundred homes for our workforce.
We need full funding, and we need her support to get there. If we don’t have full funding, our local government housing staff are handicapped in being able to plan for future projects. The Sadowski Housing Trust Funds are the single most creative funding source that allows for local housing needs.
Representative Cyndi Stevenson may be reached at (904) 823-2300 or (850) 717-5017 or via email at cyndi.stevenson@myfloridahouse.gov
Done!
I still don’t understand how the government can take that trust money!
What are they trying to spend the money on?