A hidden neighbor: How Copeland Industrial Park shapes life next door
By Vera Lucia Pappaterra | Jan. 29Issues like increased noise, air pollution and traffic often arise, raising concerns about the impact of industrial parks on nearby communities.
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UF cuts sexual assault resources and outsources others
By Zoey Thomas | Sep. 23Less than 9% of cisgender female UF students reported feeling very safe walking on campus at night. Yet despite concerns, UF outsourced a private company to manage Title IX reports, stopped using two campus-wide violence prevention programs, and renamed and moved its gender equity office, all in the past two years.
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“Keeping families together”: Local organizations continue to serve undocumented immigrants
By Vivienne Serret | Sep. 20For many undocumented immigrants, fighting the stigma of being undocumented while finding adequate resources can be a difficult process. The Keeping Families Together program could create a pathway to make it easier for undocumented individuals to stay in the U.S.
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'Keeping Families Together': Organizaciones locales continúan sirviendo a inmigrantes indocumentados
By Eneida Escobar and Vivienne Serret | Sep. 18Mientras el programa migratorio Keeping Families Together está en cuestión, organizaciones se juntan para ayudar a los inmigrantes.
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North Central Florida Continuum of Care finds leadership after extended search
By Diego Perdomo | Apr. 17In a unanimous decision from Continuum of Care members April 15, Taskforce Fore Ending Homelessness was named as the new lead agency for Keys to Home. Based in Fort Lauderdale, the nonprofit is responsible for working with other CoC service providers and strategizing to prevent and end homelessness. As a lead agency, it will also assume responsibilities to secure Housing and Urban Development and Florida Department of Children of Families funding.
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Alachua County’s vision impairment resources expand into North Central Florida regions
By Nicole Beltran | Apr. 15North Central Florida’s disability resources are scattered across the region and are becoming more accessible to underserved communities through outreach and partnerships. Despite a majority of counties carrying low numbers of visually impaired children in comparison to their populations, counties like Putnam, Bradford and Levy are seeing larger numbers.
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Inconclusive search for Continuum of Care leadership threatens Florida homeless service funding
By Diego Perdomo | Apr. 8North Central Florida counties are at risk of losing over $1 million of federal funding for homeless service providers if a replacement lead agency is not appointed by June. Keys to Home is a Continuum of Care — a coalition of homeless service providers — representing Alachua, Bradford, Gilchrist, Levy and Putnam counties. To obtain federal funding for new and existing programs, the coalition is required to have one representative agency coordinate a proposal for annual funding cycles.
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Uplifting womanhood: What Gainesville women are doing to create meaningful connections
By Nicole Beltran | Mar. 25Beyond the resources the city offers for female wellbeing, Gainesville women like Nicole have taken an approach of their own, pushing to connect deeper within their circles and strive for individual relationships with other women rather than relying on across-the-board solutions, she said.
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Gainesville homeless population struggles with encampment sweeps, lack of options
By Diego Perdomo | Feb. 26The attention around homelessness in Gainesville has heightened after recent sweeps on homeless encampments and city commission decisions to allocate 30 beds to GRACE Marketplace in the next 90 days, move $700,000 to homeless support services and prepare for the sale of the vacant Gainesville Fire Rescue station. House Bill 1365 aims to prevent city and county governments from allowing people to sleep in public. As the bill moves through the Florida Legislature, members of Gainesville’s homeless population, the city government and residents met Feb. 22 at a general policy meeting to discuss the city’s approach to these issues.
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Revisiting Porters Quarters: The ongoing challenge with gentrification
By Nicole Beltran | Feb. 12Porters Quarters is a historically Black neighborhood in East Gainesville founded in 1884 by Canadian physician Dr. Watson Porter, who only sold real estate to African Americans. As the neighborhood continues to battle gentrification among student housing and downtown expansions, the lack of communication between the city and the neighborhood worries residents. The most recent construction has left residents perplexed.
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‘What happens in the homeland hurts you deeply’: Gainesville’s Ecuadorian community weighs in on the nation’s crisis
By Nicole Beltran | Jan. 29, 2024The country’s outbreak of gang violence has escalated since an attack at a television network in Guayaquil Jan. 9 spiraled the nation into fear. After the country’s powerful drug lord, José Adolfo Macías Villamar, known as “Fito,” escaped prison Jan. 8, Ecuador’s president, Daniel Noboa, declared a 60-day state of emergency for what he’s coined an “internal armed conflict.” For Gainesville’s Ecuadorian community, the violence back home has left a lingering pain.
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Gainesville community members develop initiatives in wake of gun violence legislation
By Nicole Beltran | Jan. 22, 2024From July 1 to Dec. 31, 2023, there were 83 incidents where shots were fired, killing a total sum of seven people. From Jan. 1 the start of 2024 to Jan. 15, there have been 13 incidents where shots were fired, resulting in the deaths of two people, according to a data report shared by Alachua County’s Criminal Investigation Division. The city implemented efforts to combat firearm misuse during 2023, yet attempts have continuously clashed with state law.
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Organizacion de Gainesville visita un centro de detencion de ICE en Macclenny
By Eluney Gonzalez and Laura Quintana | Jan. 8, 2024A poco más que una hour de manejo al norte de Gainesville, en el condado rural de Baker, se encuentra uno de los cinco centros de detención de ICE en Florida.
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Gainesville organization visits ICE detention center in Macclenny
By Laura Quintana | Jan. 8, 2024Just over an hour’s drive north of Gainesville in rural Baker County lies one of Florida’s five ICE detention centers.
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Porter’s Quarters community farm combats food insecurity, empowers neighborhood
By Valentina Sandoval | Dec. 4, 2023The community farm, which has been in the works since 2012, serves as an effort to combat food insecurity and generate an income for Porters.
