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A.G. GancarskiMay 15, 2016

Senator Marco Rubio let NBC’s Today Show know where he stood after its (non)-coverage of his visit to Eureka Garden in Jacksonville Friday. “@TODAYshow could have done a real service doing story about abuses in public housing and HUD. Instead focus on political speculation” “Owner of #EurekaGardens has similar slum like conditions in projects across multiple […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 13, 2016

In the twilight of his Senate term, Sen. Marco Rubio is focusing on constituent issues, such as Eureka Garden Apartments in Jacksonville. Eureka Garden has stirred the senator to sound a clarion call for reform of HUD’s clearly problematic process. The long-neglected, 400-unit HUD complex is currently for sale by Global Ministries Foundation. It’s a meaningless distinction for those […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 27, 2016

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry will be in Washington DC this afternoon, meeting with HUD Secretary Julian Castro and Sen. Marco Rubio in separate meetings. Castro is on Curry’s schedule at 1:30, and Rubio at 4. Expected topics: Global Ministries Foundation properties, including Washington Heights and Eureka Garden. Rubio has called attention to the issue on the Senate floor this […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 20, 2016

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Jacksonville City Councilman Reggie Brown made a public relations mistake on Tuesday. He got quoted playing “blame the media” with the top news station in town, regarding the scandal-plagued slumlords of Global Ministries Foundation. “My position, if I can get things done without bringing the media and the cameras to the residents that are economically challenged, […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 13, 2016

Global Ministries Foundation, the non-profit that has recently gotten bad press in Jacksonville for owning and operating the nightmarish Eureka Garden and Washington Heights, has had its funding cut off in Tennessee, where it owns similarly blighted properties, according to Fox 13 in Memphis. The Fox 13 report says that “The funding body that approved […]

A.G. GancarskiApril 2, 2016

The war of words continues between Pastor Mark Griffin and Reverend Richard Hamlet regarding the slow remediation of enduring issues at Eureka Garden, as an email last week suggests. Griffin, whose ministry serves residents of the beleaguered 400 unit HUD community, has taken issue with Hamlet and his Global Ministries Foundation, which owns and runs Eureka Garden […]

Melissa RossMarch 30, 2016

News that problems still persist at Jacksonville’s troubled Eureka Garden public housing complex has local activists such as Denise Hunt steaming. “I’m disgusted. I was assured these problems would be solved, and I even offered a case management plan of action to help solve some of the inequities out there. I feel like I got […]

Melissa RossOctober 27, 2015

A chastened Tennessee pastor and nonprofit CEO has promised to make a laundry list of fixes at a troubled Jacksonville Section 8 housing complex after media reports uncovered deplorable conditions at the city’s notorious Westside Eureka Garden complex. “I am not a slumlord,” said the Rev. Richard Hamlet during an appearance on WJCT’s First Coast Connect. […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 23, 2015

On Thursday afternoon, a statement was released by former Jacksonville mayor Alvin Brown regarding the Eureka Garden financing issue, which, as we reported earlier this week, was ultimately controversial. In a letter dated October 18, Tripp Gulliford, the chairman of the Jacksonville Housing Finance Authority, mailed Mayor Lenny Curry with concerns over how “bond issuers […]

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Marco Rubio, The Today Show, Eureka Garden, and journalistic malpractice

Marco Rubio condemns ‘slumlords’ of Global Ministries Foundation

Lenny Curry to meet with federal officials Wednesday about HUD properties

Does Reggie Brown have a Global Ministries Foundation problem?

Report: Tennessee cuts funding off from Global Ministries Foundation, Memphis housing bonds tank

Mold still an issue at Eureka Garden in Jax

Persistent problems at Eureka Garden complex outrage Jax activists

Eureka Garden chief: “I am not a slumlord”

Eureka Garden, the Times-Union, and the art of meta-discourse