In October 2003 through Visions Five Community Development Corporation, which we founded, executed an "initial closing" contract with the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for a grant of $1.46 million under the HUD Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly program. Visions Five CDC subsequently acquired the land and started construction on a 19 unit facility to be known as Laurel Creek, Inc., in Cookeville, Tennessee to house low income, frail elderly residents. The property will be managed by Woodbine Community Organization of Nashville. The Upper Cumberland Human Resource Agency will cooperate in supplying services to residents.

Selected as one of 26 rural nonprofit housing organizations to be awarded a grant from the Housing Assistance Council of Washington DC, which administered funds for The Enterprise Foundation and the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to assist small rural housing organizations. The recent major HUD grant evolved from this funding.