Inez and Sons Elderly Housing

Welcome to our Inez and Sons Elder Housing website!

My name is Marion J R Kent, PhD and I am a City of Cincinnati Retiree where I worked as an Employment and Training Supervisor from 1980 until I retired in 2001. In 1996, I was named Public Employee of The Year. From 1963-1980 I worked as an educator with the Cincinnati Public School as a teacher in low income area school, teacher educator and central office administrator. After losing my wife to colon cancer in 2000 and a short stay in Las Vegas NV from 2001-2009 after retiring, I moved back to my home state of Florida. I currently support the Carver-Hill Museum, Mentor youth and The A Game Achievement Program that I founded.

Now 79 years old, I live in the single family home that I grew up in with my late mother and young brother as a teen that is mortgage free, zoned multifamily and located in the old black community of Ft Walton Beach, FL. My home is centrally located and near the Fresh Start Homeless Housing complex.  My goal is to add a three family housing unit to my multifamily zoned property for low income elderly folk, provide rent free housing for the elderly for five years and to provide construction jobs for displaced minority construction workers effected by the corona virus pandemic.

Proposed New Triplex Condo Style Inez and Sons Elderly Housing Units

Proposed Site Plan

Proposed Existing Home Remodeling

Inez and Sons Elderly Housing will be a joint family owned low income four unit housing complex for elderly housing in honor of the late Inez Kent and operated by her son Marion J. R. Kent, Ph. D. and granddaughter, Venus Renee Kent!   Marion James Rufus Kent, PhD will reside on the property, manage and maintain the complex located in Okaloosa County FL and City of Fort Walton Beach FL.

Inez and Sons Elderly Housing will be a new condo style two story Triplex and a remodeled existing ranch home located at 11 McGriff Street NE, Ft Walton Beach, Florida 32548 and constructed on R-2 zoned property centrally located near major shopping and businesses. The goal is to add three family two bedroom housing units, remodel the current three bedroom home, provide rent free housing for the elderly for five years and to provide construction jobs for displaced minority construction workers effected by the corona virus pandemic. The current single family ranch home was built in 1957, remodeled in 2009 and owned by the Inez Kent family since 1957! When construction and remodeling are completed, it will have three two bedroom units and one three bedroom unit.

After the construction of the the three condo housing units are completed, in addition to providing free rent for five year for low income elderly, we well assist with day-to-day care, healthy meals, medical attention, community programs and strive to create the best environment for elderly persons to thrive in.

Currently, we are seeking donation for cost of construction so when completed the four family housing complex will continue to be mortgage free. Would be willing to make an in-kind donation to the proposed project? With your help, we would be able to make a positive impact of the surrounding community, low-income elderly residents and unemployed minority construction workers of Fort Walton Beach, FL.

If you would like to make a gift, please contact me by phone at 850-374-0957 or email me at marion.kent@aol.com. We can start talking about how you can best help. We have also setup a GO Fund Me Account for excepting donations.

Hellow World!

My name is Marion J R Kent, PhD and I am a City of Cincinnati Retiree where I worked as an Employment and Training Supervisor from 1980 until I retired in 2001. In 1996, I was named Public Employee of The Year. From 1963-1980 I worked as an educator with the Cincinnati Public School as a teacher in low income area school, teacher educator and central office administrator. After losing my wife to colon cancer in 2000 and a short stay in Las Vegas NV from 2001-2009 after retiring, I moved back to my home state of Florida. I currently support the Carver-Hill Museum, Mentor youth and The A Game Achievement Program that I founded.

Now 79 years old, I live in the single family home that I grew up in with my late mother and young brother as a teen that is mortgage free, zoned multifamily and located in the old black community of Ft Walton Beach, FL. My home is centrally located and near the Fresh Start Homeless Housing complex.  My goal is to add a three family housing unit to my multifamily zoned property for low income elderly folk, provide rent free housing for the elderly for five years and to provide construction jobs for displaced minority construction workers effected by the corona virus pandemic.

If you would like to make a gift, please contact me by phone at 850-374-0957 or email me at marion.kent@aol.com. We can start talking about how you can best help. We have also attached a design concept of the proposed project