This house is new in 2009.  Once again Holy Trinity has partnered with Community of Hope to provide another residence.  This home is a three bedroom, which allow transitional housing for a larger family.

Riverwalk Apartments (4-plex) is the latest project that Community of Hope has on the drawing boards. The owners notified us in January saying that they wanted to make their property available to us for use in helping others. When I visited the 4-plex for the first time I had the sense that if it was God’s will for us to purchase the property that it would indeed happen. Jerry, the current landlord stood in agreement with me.

It has been amazing to see what has happened since January. After a few months of ongoing talks with Jerry along with the Boards discernment, we decided to seek the funding necessary to purchase the properties. Yes, I said ‘properties’ because in addition to the 4-plex there is an adjoining piece of property that will provide us with enough land to build a duplex. We thought if we could come up with 20% of the purchase price ($425k) that we could borrow the rest from a bank.

In April, after writing a grant for the Hurricane Housing Recovery Program, we received an acknowledgement letter from the Brevard County Affordable Housing Council (AHC). They evaluated our project and recommended us for approval by the Brevard County Board of County Commissioners for 65% of the purchase price or $280K. Is God wonderful or what! Now we are pursuing additional funding to make the ‘deal’ a reality for Community of Hope and the families who will occupy this transitional housing.