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Being in a home of our own has been such a great blessing. We are at peace knowing we don’t have to worry about the rent going up every year.

DAYTONA BEACH — Every night for five years, Madeline Mendez had to push aside toys, books, DVDs and all the other trappings of her living room to clear a space where she could drift off to sleep. Just a few feet away, her three kids would snooze in the two small bedrooms inside her cramped South Daytona apartment. It was spartan living, but it was a step up from the eight months prior to that she was homeless and bouncing from one family members house to another to avoid living out of ...

New Daytona Beach housing program turns another renter into a homeowner Eileen Zaffiro-Kean, The Daytona Beach News-Journal © Nigel Cook/News-Journal Petra Smiley became the first person to purchase a home through the new Homes Bring Hope program. She and Mendez now live on the same cul-de-sac. Smiley is pictured in April with her children, Miracle and Cairon, at the dedication of their new home in Daytona Beach. DAYTONA BEACH — Every night for five years, Madeline Mendez ...

DAYTONA BEACH — When the completely reinvented Riverfront Park opens early next year, the public green space is going to look dramatically different. One impossible-to-miss change will be fencing wrapping around the park, a $1.5 million addition to the overhaul project made to enable the park to close every night and not reopen until the sun comes up each morning. That was just one change mentioned during Wednesday nights City Commission meeting during a discussion of amendments to the leas...

DAYTONA BEACH — Petra Smileys new home isnt exactly one of those tony riverfront estates with lush tropical landscaping, a backyard pool and deck for moonlit parties, and a dock to park the family yacht. Her house is a 1,250-square-foot concrete block structure built when Richard Nixon was president and located in a no-frills neighborhood just east of Nova Road near Bellevue Avenue. But to Smiley, a longtime dweller of cramped apartments, its the castle shes been dreaming of for more th...