A mighty STREAM…

“Our destiny is not written for us; it’s written by us...”

— Barack Obama

 

What impact can we have on Affordable Housing and homelessness? Read below what we have already achieved in Manatee County.

  • STREAM played a large role in the "affordability" criteria of the Livable Manatee program's change in 2022. The affordability is now outlined as 80% of AMI (Area Median Income), whereas before it included those earning 120% of AMI. Now it targets those most in need.

“My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.”

— Bryan Stevenson

 

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…”

— John F. Kennedy

 

“O you who have believed, be persistently firm in justice, witnesses for Allah, even if it be against yourselves or parents and relatives.”

— The Koran 4:135