September 11, 2023
Sarasota's growing number of short-term rentals may have an impact on housing crisis
Noise, traffic and changes to community character are the topics that tend to dominate recent debates about the area's booming increase in short-term vacation rentals.
But Cicely Ho…
March 6, 2023
Home is Where the Heart Is
Our basic need for a home—for the shelter, security, and sanctuary a home provides—is a universal human need. While headlines are aswirl with stories of rent escalations and affor…
March 6, 2023
New Sarasota housing collaborative partners with landlords for more rentals amid crisis
Jonathan Frankel has called Sarasota home for 33 years. His kids went to local schools, he owned a nice house, and he ran a thriving tiling business. “I was the marble man for the rich a…
February 28, 2023
Community Foundation of Sarasota County Taps Unique Funding to Support Affordable Housing Opportunity for Project 180
Through a combination of grant and program-related investment, formerly incarcerated citizens remain sheltered and connected In a bid to circumvent homelessness that can lead to recidivi…
February 13, 2023
Season of Sharing raises $3.67 million from community to help neighbors in crisis
After a year in which a hurricane piled another crisis atop many already weighing upon working families, local residents came through once more to help their neighbors – raising more tha…
January 30, 2023
Season of Sharing helps Sarasota teacher and family displaced by storm
For years, Chris Rhodes, a special education teacher in Chicago, felt stunted and overworked. With teaching prospects in Florida, Chris and his wife jumped at the chance to move. Before long…
January 18, 2023
Broken to belonging: Venice man transforms with help from Season of Sharing
The night his life would start to change, Daniel Vowell was drunk and high. And his father, like many times before, was in his face, telling him to stop his ways, turn his life around. To Dani…
January 10, 2023
Power of laughter: Season of Sharing helps Lakewood Ranch couple raising grandkids
Angie and Marvin Gore craved a fresh start. Behind them was a string of disasters – a tornado, a stroke and a burned-down house. When they visited Florida five years ago, Manatee County…
January 4, 2023
Season of Sharing helps dozens of families after halt in Sarasota County childcare aid
Victoria Lopez and Lee LaVallee were just starting to feel caught up. The parents – military veterans raising three kids in a working-class neighborhood of North Port – had good, w…