Dragonfly Village for Those Without a Home

 

Dragonfly Village is state of the art transitional housing for homeless and low-income individuals and families. Sponsored by Amity Foundation, Dragonfly Village includes 39 fully furnished housing units that are studio, one, two, three or four bedrooms. Utilities are also included.

Dragonfly Village is located on a separate campus at Amity, which is in the Tanque Verde School District. The Ranch is situated between the majestic Catalina and Rincon Mountain ranges, in the lush and peaceful Sonoran Desert. Built in 1929, the property was originally the winter home of the Westinghouse family. The property subsequently served as a private boarding school for many years.

 

Dragonfly Village tenants have the opportunity to participate in activities that will facilitate their transition to permanent housing, such as maintaining a household and its finances; performing the tasks of daily living; upholding the terms of a lease; and building a sense of community among the tenants.

 

Helping individuals and families transition out of dependency ensures that society will spend less on child protective services, welfare, foster care, medical care, incarceration, and other services that drain local, state and federal budgets.

 

 

Mr. Clarke has also been involved with strategic non-partisan initiatives that use sports and other social enterprises to help support children, education, civil and human rights.  He continues to work on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised for Amity Foundation’s Dragonfly Village “state of the art” transitional housing for homeless individuals and families; and Corporate Officer with Epidaurus, Inc. of Arizona, California and New Mexico.  He also serves on the Pima County Housing Commission and Linkages Arizona.