Nearly fifty years, in order.
1978
Founded
Formed as successor to the American Friends Service Committee's Florida Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Housing effort — to improve farmworker housing statewide through technical assistance and training. Azalea Apartments was built the same year.
Late 1970s–80s
Florida's first self-help grantees
Florida's first Section 523 self-help housing grantees come out of FNPH's work.
1980s–2025
The technical assistance era
USDA TMA contractor for about forty-five years. Technical assistance reached eight states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, helping nonprofits and municipalities build Section 515, 514, and 516 rental housing. Farmworker rental assistance ran throughout.
2025
Strategic plan adopted
The 2025–2027 plan writes down the pivot from technical assistance to direct service and development.
2025
HUD-approved housing counseling
FNPH becomes the first certified housing counseling agency in its counties.
2025
The USDA technical assistance contract ends
Forty-five years of regional technical assistance close as the direct-service chapter opens.
2025
Azalea Apartments acquired
40 homes in Bowling Green — FNPH's first USDA 515 preservation, with the Housing Assistance Council.
2026
First-time homebuyer workshops begin
January in Sebring at Veranda Breeze; April in Avon Park with the housing authority.
2026
Applying to run self-help housing
FNPH applies to become a Section 523 self-help grantee itself — the program it taught others to run for forty-five years.
2028
Fifty years
The fiftieth year.
Mission
Florida Non-Profit Housing ensures decent, safe, and affordable housing for low- to moderate-income families and farmworkers in rural areas — through technical assistance, education, training, and housing development and preservation.
Four ways FNPH shows up
- Train and support housing providers
- Counsel families toward homeownership
- Connect farmworkers to rental assistance
- Preserve and develop rural rental communities
Nearly fifty years
Decent, safe, affordable housing for rural families and farmworkers.
1978
Serving since
Nearly fifty years of work — the fiftieth anniversary arrives in 2028.
HUD-approved
Housing counseling
The first certified housing counseling agency in its rural Central Florida counties.
40 homes
Kept affordable
Azalea Apartments in Bowling Green — held in USDA 515 with rental assistance on every unit.
91¢
Of every dollar to programs
Audited in FY2025.
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