page_title: Carrfour Supportive Housing
section_title: Operation Sacred Trust
hierarchical_section_title: Carrfour Supportive Housing / Operation Sacred Trust
caption_attribution_description: English: Formerly homeless Vietnam veteran in Miami, Florida with truck where he lived for 18 months.
context_page_description: Carrfour Supportive Housing is a nonprofit organization established in 1993 by the Homeless Committee of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. It develops, operates and manages affordable and supportive housing communities for low-income individuals and families in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Carrfour communities combine affordable housing with comprehensive, on-site supportive services. Carrfour is Florida's largest not-for-profit supportive housing provider, housing more than 10,000 formerly homeless men, women and children in 20 communities throughout Miami-Dade County, assembling over $300 million of financing, tax credits and subsidies, and developing more than 1,700 affordable housing units since its founding.
context_section_description: In 2011, Carrfour launched Operation Sacred Trust to specifically help prevent and end homelessness for Veteran families in South Florida.
  If Gwendolyn Cutler-Isom had to describe her one-bedroom apartment in one word it would be GREAT. "I love everything about this place!" she said. Since April, the 54-year old Army veteran has been living in the recently-opened Barbara Carey-Shuler Manor in Liberty City.
  Glenn Merryman, 58, had been homeless for nearly a year-and-a-half before moving into his apartment at the Manor in February. "I felt like I was the lowest person in the world when I was homeless," he recalled. "But here they care about you and even check on you every few weeks just to make sure that you're alright."
  As part of an innovative effort to tackle Miami's problem with homelessness, Xavier Wright has traded the streets of downtown for a live-in community farm project in south Florida that grows produce for an upscale restaurant. Wright, 25, said it's his first steady job in two years ... Wright, who previously served in the U.S. Marine Corps in Iraq, had resided in a homeless shelter with his 6-year-old autistic son before moving to Verde Gardens.
  A November 11, 2012 Huffington Post article featured Operation Sacred Trust as a new model for ending homelessness for America's veterans. The same day, Carrfour President/CEO Stephanie Berman-Eisenberg published an Op-Ed on the Miami Herald Editorial Page highlighting the program's impact on area veterans.
caption: Formerly homeless Vietnam veteran with truck where he lived for 18 months.
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