{"id":16116,"date":"2025-10-22T19:45:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/16116\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:45:03","slug":"society-65-years-of-building-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/16116\/","title":{"rendered":"SOCIETY: 65 Years of Building Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Housing Authority of the City of Fort Myers celebrated 65 years of impact with an anniversary luncheon attended by local and state officials, staff and community partners. The event highlighted the organization\u2019s decades-long commitment to quality housing and stronger neighborhoods, honoring past achievements, celebrating current\u00a0successes and looking ahead to the future. Currently, the Housing Authority owns and manages over 1,400 housing units throughout Southwest Florida, in addition to providing over 2,500 housing vouchers. The organization has several new properties in development, all with the goal of providing more people with access to safe, affordable housing options.<\/p>\n

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About the Housing Authority of the City of Fort Myers\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

The Housing Authority of the City of Fort Myers and its nonprofit development arm, the Southwest Florida Housing Foundation, serve as a catalyst for expanding access to safe, stable and sustainable housing throughout Southwest Florida. Together, they work to develop, preserve and revitalize communities through affordable rental housing. Their efforts support individuals, families and seniors across the region by connecting them with housing solutions and associated programs tailored to their needs. For more information, visit\u00a0www.HACFM.org<\/a>\u00a0or call 239-344-3222.\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open Audio Article Player Housing Authority of the City of Fort Myers luncheon celebrates 65-year anniversarySOCIETYSPECIAL TO FLORIDA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-16116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}