Farm workers in desperate need to get housing options

Affordable housing project in often-overlooked community aims to provide relief for farmworkers toiling in poverty and living in deplorable conditions.

STEFANIA PIFFERI — A new apartment development under construction in Immokalee will give low-income families with few options opportunities.
STEFANIA PIFFERI — A new apartment development under construction in Immokalee will give low-income families with few options opportunities.
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Sitting on the corner of Lake Trafford Road and 19th Street in Immokalee, the construction site sticks out. It’s a big development. The property has been cleared, crews are working and, in just a few weeks, eight two-story buildings making up 128 hurricane resistant, two- and three-bedroom apartments will slowly begin to appear.

 

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