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Alexandrea Poling, 2, watches the fish feed on the food her mother just dropped into their tank.
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Marlen Velasquez, 21, waits for her identical 5-year-old twin sons, Zuriel, left, and Azael to finish their meals before leaving their apartment in Bonita Springs to attend a party. Velasquez helps support the children with her fiance’, Carlos Guzman, 28, on a combined estimated annual income of $34,800.
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Marlen Velasquez watches one of her twin sons in their apartment in Bonita Springs. Velasquez struggles to make ends meet with her fiancé on their combined annual income, which is significantly less than the area’s median income of $56,000 a year for a family of four.
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Wendy Richardson talks about the financial tightrope she and her husband walk in helping to support a daughter in college while trying to save for their retirement, vacations and the skyrocketing cost of living in Collier County.
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Don and Jane Drew remove boxes from their lanai closet at Monterra Apartments in Bonita Springs. The couple is moving after their apartment complex announced it will convert to condos.
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Arbour Walk Apartments resident Michele Flocco thinks the North Naples complex will be converted to condos.
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Cpl. David Billy of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office takes notes on the scene of a fender bender at the corner of Pine Ridge Road and U.S. 41 North. The agency is having a problem retaining employees and hiring new ones because of the high cost of housing in Collier.
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Clockwise from top right: Elaine Poling, a clinic worker from Naples, shares a meal with her children Amber, 14, Alexandrea, 2, and Julian 10. Like many essential workers in Southwest Florida, Poling, a single mother, works a second weekend job to earn about $33,000 total a year to support her family.
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Cpl. David Billy of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office processes a driver’s license during a traffic stop on Airport-Pulling Road. Billy, a longtime employee of the Sheriff’s Office, said the agency is shortstaffed due to a shortage of affordable housing in Collier County.
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