Affordable housing remains a pressing issue for many Jacksonville residents as rent prices continue to challenge budgets across the city. To address this challenge, the local group ICARE held its Community Problems Assembly at Christ the King Church in Arlington. At the event, ICARE’s board and the city of Jacksonville introduced a plan to create an affordable housing trust fund.

Mayor Donna Deegan will be at the annual Nehemiah Action Assembly at Abyssinia Missionary Baptist Church to hear ICARE's thoughts on the city’s affordable housing crisis.

Members of ICARE came together Monday night to plan for the future after Jacksonville’s murder rate dropped significantly.

A man died and another had non-life-threatening injuries after a shooting at a park on Jacksonville‘s Westside on Saturday night, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

A Jacksonville community group of faith leaders — “ICARE” — held a prayer vigil Monday to end violence in the city.

A Jacksonville community group of faith leaders, known as ICARE, is planning to hold a prayer vigil Monday morning to call for an end to violence in the city.

Jacksonville faith leaders with the group ICARE will gather Monday evening for the yearly Nehemiah Action Assembly at the Abyssinia Missionary Baptist Church where they will press for solutions to end violent crime in the city.

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters has responded to ICARE’s demands for him to do more to decrease homicides in Jacksonville.

Local leaders with ICARE gathered outside the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on Monday hoping to find a new solution to end violent crime in the city.

As Jacksonville police investigate four weekend shootings, including one that was deadly, a local group is making a new push to address gun violence in Jacksonville.

Keith Oglesby, the co-president of Interfaith Coalition for Action, Reconciliation & Empowerment or ICARE, says that the violence in the city is something they’re working to combat because it’s sad that the residents must deal with this.

Local faith leaders with ICARE gathered at Mount Zion AME Church Tuesday morning to call for an end to gun violence.

The city of Jacksonville once again reached the 100-murder mark last week, and faith leaders are calling for action from city leaders to curb the violence.

A Jacksonville community group that had planned to meet Monday with Sheriff Mike Williams might be moving on, taking its pitch for an adult citation program to the candidates who want to be the city’s next sheriff.

Faith leaders gathered Tuesday night, advocating for civil citations as opposed to arrests.

An interfaith group of Jacksonville community leaders is celebrating a pledge from Sheriff Mike Williams, whom the group says has agreed to more discussions about how police respond to mental health crises and alternatives to arrests for minor crimes.

Duval County is now one step closer to implementing adult civil citations in place of arrests for some nonviolent crimes.