Rent payment help across Naples, Immokalee, and the rest of Collier County
Collier County's rental assistance options are mainly split between two towns: charity offices in Naples serve most of the county, while Immokalee has programs of its own built around farm work. This page is a guide to the organizations in both places that may pay back rent, stop an eviction, or subsidize a household's housing costs, each listed with an address and phone number.
Depending on the household, the help may be one-time money toward overdue rent, a subsidized apartment, or a free lawyer once an eviction is filed. Cancer patients, farmworkers, and veterans each have a program of their own in this county.
None of these funds stays full year-round. When one office is out of money another may have just been replenished, which is a real reason to keep working down the list instead of stopping at the first no. Bring the lease, the late notice, and proof of income to any of them.
Charity funds for overdue rent
The Salvation Army of Collier County - 3180 Estey Avenue, Naples, FL 3410. Phone: (239) 775-9447 — financial assistance appointments: (239) 210-4016. Website: https://southernusa.salvationarmy.org/naples. Emergency help with rent is available here once in a twelve-month stretch for Collier County households that clear the office's review, which includes proof the tenant has been paying part of the rent and paperwork signed by the landlord.
- Payments go out on a set cycle rather than the same day, so this works best before the situation reaches a court date. A final-notice electric or water bill can be brought to the same appointment, and covering it leaves that money in the household for the landlord. More information is on the NHPB guide to Collier County Salvation Army.
Catholic Charities, Diocese of Venice — Collier County offices are as follows. Naples: 3174 Tamiami Trail East, Naples, FL 34112 — (239) 793-0059 as well as Immokalee (Guadalupe Social Services): 211 S. 9th Street, Door #7, Immokalee, FL 34142 — (239) 657-6242. Website: https://catholiccharitiesdov.org/. The Naples office takes appointments from income-eligible Collier County residents for financial help with rental payments, reviewing identification, the bill involved, and income before deciding. Guadalupe Social Services runs the Immokalee side with financial assistance, rent payment help and housing support for that community's residents. Both offices work in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole.
St. Vincent de Paul Naples Family Assistance Center: 4451 Mercantile Avenue, Naples, FL 34104. Phone: (239) 775-1667. Website: https://www.svdpnaples.org/. Caseworkers here meet with Collier County households one on one, and help toward rent is typically possible once per year for families whose situation checks out during the interview or a home visit. The society's approach pairs the payment with budgeting and stability work rather than treating it as a stand-alone transaction, so plan for a conversation, not a counter window.
Coalition of Florida Farmworker Organizations (COFFO) - 214-A S. First Street, Immokalee, FL 34142. Phone: (239) 657-7272. Website: https://coffo.org/. COFFO is the state's designated emergency assistance agency for farmworkers, and its Immokalee office may provide financial help to prevent an eviction for migrant and seasonal farmworker households when funds are available. Farm work is the eligibility test here, not town of residence, so field workers living anywhere in the county can ask.
Cancer Alliance Network - Phone: (239) 643-4673. Website: https://canceralliancenetwork.org/. Collier County residents currently in chemotherapy or radiation treatment, or in hospice care, can apply for help with a rent or mortgage payment so treatment does not cost the household its home. Income limits apply, at least a year of local residency is required, and the patient's physician signs part of the application, so gather that paperwork before calling.
The county office and rent help for veterans
Collier County Community and Human Services Division - 3339 Tamiami Trail East, Building H, Room 211, Naples, FL 34112 Phone: (239) 252-2273. The county's social services staff screen Collier residents for whichever assistance programs the county is running at a given time, including rent, and this office is the right place to ask what county help currently exists for a housing emergency. Veteran Services works from Suite 212 of the same building at (239) 252-8387, where county service officers file VA benefit claims at no charge — a route that can permanently raise a veteran household's income rather than covering a single month.
JFCS of the Suncoast — veteran housing program - Phone: (941) 366-2224. Website: https://jfcs-cares.org/. This agency carries the federal Supportive Services for Veteran Families grant for a six-county region that includes Collier. Case managers pair veterans who are homeless or about to lose their housing with financial and employment assistance aimed at keeping or landing permanent housing, and the screening starts with one phone call regardless of which Collier town the veteran lives in.
Housing choice vouchers / Section 8 and farmworker apartments
Collier County Housing Authority - 1800 Farm Worker Way, Immokalee, FL 34142. Phone: (239) 657-3649. Website: https://www.cchafl.org/. The authority administers the county's housing choice vouchers, which pay part of the monthly rent to private landlords for very low-income households that come off a waiting list, and it owns subsidized apartments along with dedicated farm worker housing that carries its own rent subsidies. Lists open and close as funding moves, so ask the office which programs are taking applications.
Free tenant lawyers in Naples and Immokalee
Legal Aid Service of Collier County Naples: 4436 Tamiami Trail East, Naples, FL 34112 — (239) 775-4555 with another office at Immokalee: 1400 N. 15th Street, Suite 201, Immokalee, FL 34142 — (239) 657-7442. Website: https://www.collierlegalaid.org/. Free civil lawyers here defend qualifying low-income tenants in evictions, push back on unsafe living conditions, and handle problems with subsidized housing. Florida evictions move quickly once a case is filed, so the call should happen the day papers arrive, and the Immokalee office means farmworker families do not have to reach Naples to be heard.
Collier 211
United Way of Collier and the Keys answers 2-1-1 for this county — dial 2-1-1 or (239) 263-4211 at any hour — and its own reporting shows rent payment help is consistently the single most requested need on the line, so the specialists route these exact calls all day. Use it to check what has newly opened or run dry between the listings above, especially after a storm, when short-term local funds tend to appear and vanish fast here.
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